{"id":36,"date":"2005-11-16T13:29:04","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T05:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2005\/11\/16\/singaporean-netflix\/"},"modified":"2005-11-16T15:30:44","modified_gmt":"2005-11-16T07:30:44","slug":"singaporean-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2005\/11\/16\/singaporean-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"Singaporean Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man, I got very little sleep last night at a class gathering. We rented a chalet at <a href=\"http:\/\/online.aloha.gov.sg\/\">Aloha<\/a> and a few of us played Mahjong from before dinnertime to 3am. Feeling quite dead now.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videoezy.com.sg\/\">Video Ezy<\/a> has set up an online DVD retail service in Singapore. (About time&#8230;) Basically, just like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/\">Netflix<\/a>, you sign up for an account with a flat monthly fee. Then you get to have any DVD in their catalogue mailed to you in a return-paid envelope. You can only have a certain number of DVDs on-hand at any time and each time you mail back one DVD, the next DVD on your list is delivered to your mailbox.<\/p>\n<p>I signed up for one month to test the service. The movie library seems quite acceptable, although it lacks a lot of Japanese movie. The anime stuff also seems quite haphazardly chosen, but all the big-title movies are there (<strong>Akira<\/strong>, <strong>Ghost in the Shell<\/strong>, <strong>Appleseed<\/strong> and a lot of Ghibli stuff). However, it does have all but one of the twenty or so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/chart\/top\">IMDb Top 250<\/a> titles I tried searching for. The one that it didn&#8217;t have was <b>Pulp Fiction<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Since I watch most DVDs only once anyway, this could save me a lot of money and keep me occupied during the school holidays. The downside is that I don&#8217;t end up with a nice row of DVD casings to display on my bookshelf at the end of the day&#8230; XD<\/p>\n<p>The website is somewhat buggy though, especially on Firefox but also on IE for certain things. Hopefully they do something about those bugs after receiving my <strike>complaint<\/strike> suggestion e-mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man, I got very little sleep last night at a class gathering. We rented a chalet at Aloha and a few of us played Mahjong from before dinnertime to 3am. Feeling quite dead now. Anyway, Video Ezy has set &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2005\/11\/16\/singaporean-netflix\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[234,259,128,434],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}