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Your online rental plan is pre-paid. So, each month of service is paid in advance. The only way you will be charged after you cancel is if you do not return the movies you have out.
Will delivery speed of my DVDs be affected by holidays or inclement weather?
IMC uses the U.S. Postal Service, so your DVD delivery will not be any different than your regular mail. Not even rain, sleet or snow will keep your DVDs from you.
What can I do if I'm experiencing long mail delays when receiving DVDs?
While we have no control over the U.S. Postal Service, you should receive most DVDs within two to three days. If your shipments consistently take longer than this, please check your address information to ensure that your address and zip code are correct. If the problem persists, please contact us for assistance.
If you have not received your DVD in 5 days, click on Report a DVD Issue and complete the form. We will resend the DVD as soon as we receive your request.
Availability indicates the estimated wait before you will be able to receive your movie. It is dependent upon many factors, including the number of copies we have, the popularity of the movie, and the priority you set in My Queue. Even though some titles have longer waits than others, you should keep titles in the order you would prefer them. We can't guarantee you'll always get your highest priority titles first, but we will ship out copies as soon as they become available, and you may receive titles much quicker than we estimate.
Available Now - This title is currently in stock, and we anticipate that it will be available for shipment when requested. However, please keep in mind that due to the constant change in availability factors we can't guarantee that this title will be the next title we ship you, even if it has the highest priority in your Queue. Short Wait - This title currently has a few more requests than copies available for shipment. We anticipate that we will be able to ship you the title within the next 2 weeks.
Long Wait - This title currently has a high number of requests compared to the number of copies available for shipment. If the demand stays high, it may take 2-4 weeks before we can ship you the title. Very Long Wait - This title either has a limited number of copies or an unusually high number of requests. It may take 6 weeks or longer before we are able to ship you the title. However, if the popularity stays this high, we may choose to buy additional copies, if possible. Coming Soon - This title is either on order or is not currently available for rent. Please check the Release Date on the product detail page for title specific information.
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The most eagerly embraced consumer electronics format ever introduced, DVD is to videotape what CDs were to vinyl record albums. DVD was originally an acronym for Digital Video Disc. Later, others began calling it Digital Versatile Disc. By any name, it is essentially a next-generation form of the compact disc (CD). DVD can hold far more data, and DVD players can read and process that data at far higher speeds. Whereas a CD can store music for playback (or, in the form of a CD-ROM, a computer program), a DVD can store a movie for playback -- and with picture and sound quality that far surpasses that of VHS videotapes.
Will the DVDs I rent from IndianMovieClub.com play in my machine?
Generally, DVDs from IndianMovieClub.com are "region 1" discs. This means that they will work only in machines designed for and sold within the United States (and its territories) and Canada. A logo of a framed globe bearing the appropriate regional number appears on each regionally encoded disc. Some discs from smaller, independent labels may not be coded, which means that they will play in any machine in any country.
Since studios often release movies in different countries through different regional distribution companies, the coding is meant to protect the integrity of those regional rights holders. While some independent distributors dispense with the coding, the major studios do not.
Region 1: United States (and U.S. Territories) and Canada
Region 2: Europe, Japan, the Middle East, and South Africa
Region 3: East and Southeast Asia (Hong Kong)
Region 4: Australia, the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, and South America
Region 5: Africa, Eastern Europe, the Indian Subcontinent, Mongolia, and North Korea
Region 6: China
Region 7: Not yet designated
Region 8: International venues such airplanes and ocean liners
DVDs often include "extras" that don't appear on VHS editions of the same film. These "added value" features can include: theatrical trailers; alternate scene takes and endings; screen tests; making-of features; explanations of special effects sequences; original storyboards; interviews with the actors and crew; picture galleries; and much more. Some DVDs also include games and/or web links that take you to restricted areas on fan sites.
On the high-tech side, DVDs are capable of feeding wide-screen images to wide-screen (16:9 or HDTV-ready) televisions. For those with a standard TV, the very same DVD presents the wide-screen image in letterbox format: that is, with black strips along the top and bottom of the screen to preserve the film's original theatrical aspect ratio (width: height).
A DVD can also present seamless branches: That means that movies can be set to present the viewer's choice from among multiple endings. Few disc producers and directors have chosen to take advantage of the feature, but it's there. Much the same can be said of DVD's rarely used ability to present choices of different camera angles within a scene.
Dolby is a recording system introduced in films in 1972 to improve audio clarity. Dolby Laboratories, its creator, later expanded the system to create acoustic effects, and it is the underlying process by which dimension is added to a motion picture soundtrack. (For instance: plane engines that seem to come from the back of the theater before the aircraft appears on the screen.) It has been advanced significantly in the modern digital environment. A Dolby decoder, typically built into an A/V receiver or DVD player, is necessary to take advantage of the multidimensional effects.
Dolby Digital is the 1990s version of Dolby Surround. It updates the original enhancements of Surround to provide five distinct audio signals (and the need for five speakers): left, center, right, left surround, and right surround.
Dolby Digital's newest type of surround sound -- which is now often applied when mastering titles for DVD release -- adds a sixth "channel" to the five speaker-specific channels. This channel isolates and provides the low rumbles and loud bangs that are more felt than heard in movie theaters.
Digital Theater Systems (DTS) Digital Surround is similar to Dolby Digital. As an audio encoding format, it requires a decoder that is usually either in the player or in an external receiver. A battle continues between those who claim DTS sounds better than Dolby Digital and those who claim the opposite. Players made before mid-1998 -- and many since, up to the present day -- ignore DTS soundtracks. DVD players that are DTS-compatible carry an official "DTS Digital Out" logo, and a few manufacturers provide upgrades to make existing players compatible with DTS discs. Since virtually every DVD with a DTS soundtrack has an accompanying Dolby Digital track, choosing one does not exclude the other.
Originated for theaters, this sound and audio processing system is the brainchild of Star Wars creator George Lucas's Lucasfilm and is now available for home entertainment systems (Home THX). The THX process is designed to ensure that movie's screen presentation and soundtrack are aligned as closely as possible to filmmakers' original intentions. THX is also compatible with all Dolby Digital and DTS formats. However, in order to take full advantage of the THX format, the system must be outfitted with Home THX products and carefully tuned to the room, and the movie must be presented at a prescribed sound level.