1 August: We've done a major site update, visiting all the DVD rental sites and updating pricing, inventories, etc. The Chinese service, Owco.ca went out of business, bringing the total Canadian DVD sites from 14 to 13, while we noted Rent Game appears to be defunct as well, bringing game rental services down from four to three.

1 April: No April Fools here--nothing new to report in the online DVD rental scene.

1 January 2008: We knocked down Cyberflix as they have simply not been expanding and we've had bad service experiences with their failure to even reply to emails--always a bad sign. Taken together, these two factors are ones we've often seen in DVD rental companies on their way out of business...

1 November: This month we did a major review and revamp, verifying prices, taking new screenshots, etc. We also moved down the US trading site Peerflix for reported customer service issues, and moved Starflix down one slot to the bottom. FamilySafe movies went out of business, bringing the total Canadian DVD rental sites active to 15 by our count.

1 June: This month we added two new services, Premieres and Owco, a Chinese-language niche rental site, which nicely complements Canada's other Asian-based rental site, the Indian-specialty Pyasa. We also updated some of the DVD inventory numbers, which have been growing since the site launch.

1 May: Not many changes to report, though we did knock Peerflix down a peg and move Rogers Video Direct to the number 4 spot. Our opinion is still that if you like market leader Zip's system you should cut out the middleman and sign up direct with them, but we've been won over by some of the instore benefits which will appeal to some. Besides, keeping Cyberflix, with its 3,500 title inventory, above Roger's at 50,000+ just didn't seem right...