Online DVD rentals
There has been whole lot of advances in this space since we last reported about it.
More players have entered into this space since then. Madhouse, Moviemart to name a few.
Madhouse has been a phone based rental service operating in Chandigarh (based out of Delhi 
) for past one and half year and have now gone online with services extended to Delhi/NCR. Moviemart also confirms the market for Online DVD Rentals by moving its 100% offline store to online rentals. The trends in this space are quite positive as some earlier entrants (www.cinesprite.com, www.seventymm.com) are becoming aggressive in marketing, have improved their service levels, have gone for second round of funding etc.
Just to comment on Cinesprite, they are leading the pack as far as Delhi/NCR is concerned and currently promise a large range of titles and very good service levels. I asked for a title and they added it to their collection in a short span of time.
It is definitely becoming one sticky service with switching barriers coming from the movie collection, pricing and other website related features. I haven’t tried others (as I mentioned, it’s a bit sticky) but recommend others to try out Cinesprite.
Since I started using the service a couple of months ago I feel that online DVD rentals hold a definite advantage over the local DVD rental shops. I can search for the available titles, The quality of DVD’s are better, can maintain a queue of DVD’s that I want to watch, return it as per my schedule, no extra charges for keeping it one more day 
and moreover can request a DVD if it is not available in the collection. The only drawback I find is that they would only provide titles that are legally available in India unlike the local DVD rental shops.
As far as the competition amongst the online DVD rental companies is concerned I think it will all boil down to who has more titles, better deals, better DVD quality, timely deliveries and pickup (quality of service) and better promotional and marketing campaigns.
Challenges - mindset of people (as we last reported it) is difficult to crack and we would love to hear about this from one of the online DVD rental company. These companies surely have been successful in gaining some momentum by breaking such mindsets (or it is the adventurous lot of people - who jump to try out any new service that starts). It will be great to see and to imagine the growth these guys can have if they are successful in delivering on this front.
rpadaki said
am November 13 2006 @ 7:19 pm
I saw a post about madhouse
http://convergence.in/blog/2006/11/02/madhouse-entertains-india-offers-dvd-rentals/
Piyush said
am November 21 2006 @ 5:52 am
Great Job Pawan and others, keep going! If there is anything we can coordinate on, let me know…
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am December 4 2006 @ 7:12 am
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harrysingh said
am March 20 2007 @ 7:44 am
I am a member of Madhouse.in for the past 3 months.These guys have some interesting plans and an excellent collection of movie titles.I have been able to see a lot of movies I missed out in the past and some real good Hollywood flicks.
Also their idea of sending popcorn sachet packs -which one can bake at home seems to be rocking.I have stopped going to PVR for now as I now watch 5 movies at home for the cost of 1 at the hall and the best part is that movies are home-delivered and pick up for free
janish said
am May 19 2007 @ 1:57 pm
Interesting comments.
i am a member of www.clixflix.com in Mumbai since November 2004. They’ve always operated through a couple of stores and over the phone apart from being online.
being an old member, every now and then they kick in a few complimentray titles. A lot more valuable than sachets of popcorn i guess. They also offer an sms platform (sms FLIX to 7575) and have a more organised system of call handling (Dial a DVD/VCD 64520000) which handles all their members. They help with recommendations and even read out synopses. Its been a long time since i visisted a theatre.
Vinayak said
am June 2 2007 @ 7:42 am
Hi,
All you guys must enroll to catchflix site , its simply amazing and the quality of service and DVD are extremely superior, guys this will be the future of DVD rentals.
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Santu said
am June 3 2007 @ 6:22 am
It looks like there’s quite a community that prefers original DVDs over pirated stuff. I experienced the difference when I happened to rent one of Raj Kapoor & Nargis classics from Catchflix.com. I have to admit that I was bit doubtful about the whole delivery & pick-up thing but it turned out to be one of the most prompt services I ever enjoyed online. With Blue Dart doing its logistics, Catchflix has always been easy to do business with.
Being a bengali, it’s a ‘must’ to watch or at-least be well informed about Satyajit Ray’s work to qualify for those “prestigious” coffee-house discussion forums. I searched for his titles like ‘agantuk’, ‘charulata’ at several DVD places but actually found them with just a click on Catchflix for a nominal rental fee that looks lot lesser than its “archeological value” for a self-acclaimed movie critique!
Catchflix is indeed a cool place to find the latest and the rarest flicks. For a traffic-troubled city like Bangalore, an Oscar nominated title or an original DVD of a movie like ‘Good Year’ is beginning to become a perfect setting to enjoy your chilled beer on Sunday afternoons at the comfort of your favorite corner of the couch that you don’t like to share with anybody!
tarun said
am June 16 2007 @ 9:39 pm
i am a member of moviemart and they are the best in this business,their service is great,staff is polite.moviemart has the latest titles as well old ones,they also take ur recommendations and suggest u movies.whats more they hv an unlimited movie plan for all types of budgets starting from 199 p.m. moviemart all the way.
Ashish said
am September 27 2007 @ 8:07 am
Tolmol.com, a website launched recently has a great collection of music/film dvds and cds.
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