Save Time and Money With Online DVD Rental

If you’re a movie lover, and you frequently rent DVDs, the recent wave and exponential growth of the popularity of online DVD rental stores should please you. The Internet’s ability to offer you literally any product has grown. Now you can rent DVDs and video games through the Internet and at a serious advantage to your local Blockbuster too.

Sites like Netflix.com offer numerous advantageous to the “old” way of renting DVDs. For example, you get to choose from almost 50,000 different titles. Imagine the size of a Blockbuster that held that many choices! You get all the new releases when you want them. No more waiting to see a movie. There are no late fees whatsoever. That’s a savior to some people! There is free shipping to and from your doorstep! There are also no long term contracts and you can cancel your economically priced membership anytime you’d like!

It’s so simple that even a child could do it! After filling out some basic information, you simply add whatever movies you’d like to see to a queue and they arrive at your doorstep! Most membership prices range from $4.99 a month to $39.99 a month. Obviously, the more expensive plans allow for you to take out more DVDs at one time.

DVD turnaround time is amazingly speedy. DVDs usually arrive in my regular mail within one or two days after ordering. And when I return DVDs, the company usually receives them in about the same time. Keep in mind I’m not paying ANY postage fees as well!

Keep your DVDs as long as you want, too. You won’t be charged any late fees at all! Keep a movie for two months if you’d like! Of course, that makes no sense, but you can do it if you please! This prevents you from forgetting to take movies back and paying late fees that cost more than actually buying the movie! The money you save from late fees per month is alone enough to cover the cost for this service!

All in all, it’s a simple choice. For simplicity, to save money and to have a better selection: online DVD renting is the way to go and will be the way to go for years to come!

How To Care For Your DVDs

If you are like me you love your movies and your music. Some can remember when we had to choose between cassette tapes and 8 tracks for music and VHS or BETA for video. Most of us made the switch to DVDs a long time ago as the medium of choice for viewing movies but many people do not care for their DVDs properly.

Often the main culprit is just plain and simple dirt and grime. When you start calculating the expense for trying to replace your DVDs, it is a lot smarter to prevent the damage in the first place. In addition you will maintain much better viewing quality for as long as you own the DVD. It’s important to realize that even though DVDs may seem more impervious to destruction than your old video tapes, they really aren’t and should be treated with similar care.

If you will follow some simple rules to care for your DVDs, they will last you forever (almost). So let's take a look at some tips on how to care for your DVDs.

DO... Handle discs by their edges only. Remove discs from their containers carefully. Replace discs in their containers immediately after use. Store discs only in their supplied containers. Keep discs well away from intense sources of heat. Replace damaged containers immediately. Clean playing surfaces with a clean, soft, lint free cloth. Wipe playing surfaces only from centre to outside edge. Load discs into a player's draw carefully. Only use cleaners recommended by specialist dealers.

DON'T... Touch the playing surfaces of discs. Leave discs lying around unprotected. Leave discs inside players longer than necessary. Use unproved solvents or abrasive cleaners to clean discs. Bend, twist or distort discs in any way. Pull discs out without relieving the centre clamp. Use discs as drink coasters or small Frisbees. Handle your DVD with pizza sauce on your hands.

The Legendary James Dean

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean

JAMES BYRON DEAN

James Dean was born on February 8th, 1931 in Marion, Indiana. His hobbies were writing, painting, bullfighting (when did that happen?), photography, sculpting, car racing, horse racing and playing the bongos. His favorite drink was coffee and his favorite ice cream flavor was coffee and raspberry.

LIFE IMITATES ART

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done."

GENERATION NEXT

James Dean's first professional acting gig was a Pepsi commercial. Since then, Michael Jackson, Cindy Crawford, Michael J. Fox, Shaquille O'Neal, Jeff Gordon, Ray Charles, Billy Crystal, Britney Spears, Beyonce, Shakira, The Osbournes, Faith Hill, Sammy Sosa, Joe Montana, Ken Griffey Jr., Gloria Estafan, Tina Turner and many others have endorsed the blue canned beverage.

BRAD'S CHOICE

Before Pepsi was called Pepsi, it was called "Brad's Drink" way back in 1898. Well, another Brad, Brad Pitt is now vying for the chance to remake James Dean's first film, "East of Eden" with Pitt in the starring role. Dean's performance in "East of Eden" won him an Oscar nomination, making him one of only five actors to receive a nomination from their first screen performances. He was also the only actor in history to receive more than one Oscar nomination posthumously.

ANIMAL FARM

"Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed."

FOUR EYES

Dean was required to wear glasses while driving as he was nearsighted. The king of cool, had to wear glasses, if only he had been around long enough to do a public service announcement for that, then being a "four-eyes" would have meant a completely different thing these days.

THESE GO TO ELEVEN

No matter what kind of music James Dean listened to, he liked it LOUD! But what did he listen to? After all it was the early 50's and Elvis had yet to become the King, the Beatles had yet to become the Fab Four...What did James Dean rock out to, before there was Rock? He liked African Tribal music, Afro-Cuban songs and dance (Dean liked to play the bongos), Classical music - especially Bartok and Stravinsky, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday.

THE ACTOR WAY

"When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director's task is just that --to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over. And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons."

FRANK, BILLIE AND JIMMY

It has been said that James Dean's favorite song was Billie Holiday's "When Your Lover Has Gone" and his favorite album was Frank Sinatra's "Songs for Young Lovers".

ACTING THE PART

"An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet. In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible. He must be superhuman in his efforts to store away in the core of his subconscious everything that he might be called upon to use in the expression of his art."

DEAD MAN'S CURVE

Dean only made three Hollywood pictures, propelling him into super stardom. As his final film, Giant, was wrapping up in Marfa, Texas, Dean was driving his Porsche Spyder to an auto race in Salinas, California. His car collided with another car outside Cholame, California. James Dean, an American legend, died on September 30th, 1955. The Failure Analysis Associates later re-created all the details of the accident at the same approximate time on September 30th, and concluded that James Dean was traveling 55 to 56 m.p.h. when the fateful accident occurred, thereby proving he had not been speeding, despite the fact that he had received a speeding ticket only two hours before the crash.

APOCALYPSE NOW

"Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago, there was a saying that if Marlon Brando changed the way people acted, then James Dean changed the way people lived. He was the greatest actor who ever lived. He was simply a genius." - Martin Sheen

GIANT

"Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he is the greatest actor and star I have ever known." - Dennis Hopper