After subscribing to both Netflix and Lovefilm, here is my comparison of both services:

Usability

Netflix and Lovefilm are excellent platforms with simple and intuitive interfaces. Netflix does come with a handful of apps which can help the customer experience but on the whole they’re both a pleasure to use.

They can both be accessed using many different hardware types. Lovefilm works on the following devices: PCs, Macs, Xbox 360, PlayStation3, Nintendo Wii, Kindle Fire HD, iPad, Sony, Samsung and LG TV and Blu-ray players, Sony Home Cinema and Sony Network Media Player.

Netflix is compatible with PCs, Macs, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii and Wii U, Android, iOS, Chrome OS and Windows operating systems, Roku, Apple TV, Sony, Samsung and LG TV.

As they both use Microsoft Silverlight, Linux users may struggle.

Lovefilm has the unique option to rent DVDs and Blu-rays, which are dispatched to your home by post and you return for free once you have watched it.

Content

There is a wide range of content on both services, albeit slightly old. As with all streaming services, you will rarely get brand new content (streaming sites generally get the licenses to videos after they have been released on DVD). If you are desperate to see a new film, a pay-per-view service is a better option.

As a stream-only service, if your Netflix search doesn’t find the thing you want to watch then you’re out of luck. Although, if a TV show or film is missing from Lovefilm’s streaming service, there is often the ability to rent it as a DVD or Blu-ray.

Whether or not Lovefilm or Netflix’s streaming content libraries is right for you is down to your individual preferences. If one service offers more shows you want to watch than the other, go for that one. Explore their databases a bit, typing in your favourite films or TV shows to see who has what.

Price

Netflix offers a flat-rate fee of £5.99 per month. This price enables you unlimited access to Netflix’s streaming library.

There are various package options for Lovefilm, depending if you want to use their postage service or not. Here are the options:

• Lovefilm Instant: £5.99 per month for unlimited access to Lovefilm Instant’s streaming library
• Lovefilm by Post: £5.99 per month, 3 discs per month (1 disc out at a time)
• Lovefilm Instant + Post (unlimited streaming and rental):
  • £7.99 per month (1 disc out at a time)
  • £9.99 per month (2 discs out at a time) or
  • £13.27 per month (3 discs out at a time)

Our Verdict

As film buffs, we have found that Lovefilm has a better selection of older and newer films. Plus, the postal service allows us to have DVD nights at our friends’ houses without worrying whether or not they have Netflix-compatible internet televisions.

To make up your own mind, why not take a no-strings free trial and try both out?

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This is what people think about how Apple will change the future with their new AppleTV (by Business Insider):

• Customers would be able to see any TV show at any time, there is a DVR, which stores TV shows using Internet.
• Apple wants to create something like a souped-up Apple TV version, which will be able to work in a similar was as a cable box.
• The new interface of AppleTV should be similar to iPad’s or iPhone’s interface. (It might just look like the current Apple TV interface, just a few icons more?)
• Users would be able to share what they watch on TV on different social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter.
• The interface of new Apple TV should be better and much easier to use than interfaces of most current cable boxes.
• There would be an easy way for people to see the whole season of any TV show on demand, instead of a few episodes that most cable companies are offering at the moment.

The thing is, the current version of Apple TV v2 already can do this easily. All you have to do is jailbreak the AppleTV. Once you jailbreak AppleTV you can easily install XBMC, which has tons of video content. There are XBMC video plugins for simple access to different channels, including ABC, ShowTime, YouTube and even foreign TV channels. I currently use Rurem.TV, which requires a paid subscription, to watch a lot of Russian channels.

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If you want to watch Russian TV and want to replace the traditional cable service then just find the right reputed website that will make it happen for you and serves you with the best services and deliver the feed over the Internet directly from the source. Among the rest of the sites the best one is the “RUREM.TV“. This site aims to serves you the best quality of videos, movies, TV shows or documentaries with the speed of 600 kbps and up.

Watching Russian TV online includes wide variety of benefits such as one can get the facility to watch their favorite Russian TV channels at the time of work from anywhere in the world. By using Russian TV Online one can travel into the boundless world of global television entertainment in effective budgetary levels.

While that Rurem.TV charges a monthly subscription, which is less than $20, you would get over 100 live channels with a 2 weeks archive of all channels. Another great additional is Netflix like huge movie library for many Russian movies as well as Hollywood titles, which are dubbed in Russian.

Nowadays people want more choices and freedom on what to watch without spending a fortune, which at the moment TV Network companies can’t offer.

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