Back in January i received an email from a member of LOVEFiLM called Steven Green, as an owner of a Nintendo DS he had noticed that LOVEFiLM are not supporting the console for any rentals.

Hi, I was wondering if you had any idea why Lovefilm isn’t renting out Nintendo DS games?

I’ve had a couple of replies from them in the past, one vaguely mentioned that they only did discs not cartridges and the other said there wasn’t the demand.

I’m honestly baffled by both, doubly so when you see the literally record breaking sales the DS has been getting (just google ”DS UK hardware”).

I can only assume someone is just simply out of the loop, the sales speak to the demand and any possible problems should be overshadowed by that demand.

Any info/news on this would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Steve Green

I too had noticed this, and as the Nintendo is such a massively popular hand-held console it seems strange that LOVEFiLM wouldn’t supply any titles for it, yet they still supply titles for older Nintendo consoles.

I have written to LOVEFiLM and they have replied saying that they will look into the oversight. So watch this space to see if any Nintendo DS titles come up for you guys to rent.

Thanks to Steven for bringing this up, if you guys have any other questions please email them and i will post them here, and hopefully bring awareness to LOVEFiLM on all points.

So what is LOVEFiLM and why have i started a blog called ‘Hacking LOVEFiLM’?

Well if you are not in the UK or you dont know, LOVEFiLM* is an online DVD, Games and Download rental store, if you are from the USA then you might be aware of Netflix, LOVEFILM is the UK, Scandinavian and German equivalent. They have been going for about 4 years and although they are not as big as Netflix they are growing fast and soon might catch up.

The hack.. well the word ‘hack’ is used in the media to mean to gain entry or steal using technology, the ‘Hacking’ in the name of this blog means to gain more information about the company and the services they do by anyway i can. (how i came to this name is below) Mostly i am going to ask the users of LOVEFiLM and the readers of this blog to pass on their knowledge and stories to be published. I will also be looking at the media as well as my own findings and reports as a daily user of the LOVEFiLM website.

This blog isn’t here to take down LOVEFILM or to slander it in anyway, there are lots of forums and blogs out there that love to dish the ’so called’ dirt and i wouldn’t want to take their place, i personally have had nothing but great experiences with LOVEFiLM, but im sure that there are areas that they can do better in.

So what now?.. well i don’t know really, there is no plan to this blog, hopefully it will run its own course and shape itself out. Hopefully i can put forward some areas or ideas to make mine and your subscription money work better, maybe even LOVEFiLM will be reading..

If you want to contribute by sending me your ideas, stories or rants about LOVEFILM then please use the contact form, but do remember i am not part of LOVEFiLM’s customer service or am i able to help you out with any problems you have with LOVEFiLM.

* Yes that is how they spell their company name, all of the letters are upper-case except for the ‘i’.

The name isnt something that i came up with, i have been reading Hacking Netflix for a while now, and as it is a great blog i wanted to start one on LOVEFiLM, the name ‘Hacking LOVEFiLM’ seemed to suit as well as it does with ‘Hacking Netflix’ - thanks Mike