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Originally Posted by Chris
Sadly they don’t always give you a rental option. In fact these days it seems the rental option appears on the major services (Apple, Prime) between 4-8 months post theatrical release, pretty much in the time frame you would once have gone to PPV on Sky or VM, and after that it vanishes and the title becomes purchase only.
I wanted to watch M3gan with my youngest, who is a big horror movie fan but wasn’t quite 15 when it came out in the cinema. It eventually appeared to rent and to buy but by the time we had a Sunday afternoon free to actually watch it together the rental option had gone. So I had to purchase. I have purchased only once or twice in the past and would only ever do so via Apple or Prime because content delivery is at the heart of their business models. I’d never rely on any service delivered by an ISP other than the actual bandwidth itself.
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I've purchased loads of stuff on Sky and Amazon.
Admittedly, with Sky it was mainly purchasing the DVD and getting the digital copy too.
It comes in handy when going on holiday, as you can download the movies to you Ipads, essential on short haul flights when there's no inflight entertainment and also if the Wifi is too dodgy or slow to allow streaming.