{"id":1103,"date":"2004-04-27T20:30:21","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T20:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1103.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"dvd-rentals-by-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/04\/27\/dvd-rentals-by-post\/","title":{"rendered":"DVD rentals by post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just signed up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screenselect.co.uk\/\">ScreenSelect<\/a>, a postal DVD rental service.  From no such service being available at all in the UK in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/2001\/07\/07\/netflix\/\">mid-2001<\/a>, there are now a couple of dozen to choose from.  I chose ScreenSelect because they have one of the largest collections of DVDs available (including lots of TV series), and their prices are good.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparebox.co.uk\/dvd-rental-online\/review.htm\">CompareBox<\/a> helped whittle down the short list.)  &#163;14.99 a month allows unlimited rentals, and three discs on loan at any time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been having a great time browsing through the service and adding films to my rental queue.  So much to choose from!  And unlike buying DVDs, or renting them from the local Blockbuster, I don&#8217;t have to restrict my selection because of how much I can afford, or how much I can watch in a single weekend.  I can just add and add, and my queue just gets longer and longer&#8230;.  I&#8217;m up to 67 at the moment, but I&#8217;m sure I can bump that up to well over a hundred in no time!  Woo!<\/p>\n<p>(Hmm&#8230; John Woo&#8230;  Which of his films have I not seen yet?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just signed up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screenselect.co.uk\/\">ScreenSelect<\/a>, a postal DVD rental service.  From no such service being available at all in the UK in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/2001\/07\/07\/netflix\/\">mid-2001<\/a>, there are now a couple of dozen to choose from.  I chose ScreenSelect because they have one of the largest collections of DVDs available (including lots of TV series), and their prices are good.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparebox.co.uk\/dvd-rental-online\/review.htm\">CompareBox<\/a> helped whittle down the short list.)  &#163;14.99 a month allows unlimited rentals, and three discs on loan at any time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}