DVD-less

[stevekenson]

Well... crap. Our DVD player (a Sony, for any who might care) has suddenly and mysteriously stopped working: it starts up, clunks a bit, then shuts off, regardless of what disc is in it (although, thank gods, the tray mechanism still works, and we didn’t get a disc stuck in it). Now we’ve got to look into either getting it fixed or getting a new one. Sadly, with electronics being as they are, getting a new one is probably the more economical solution...

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[wudawasa.livejournal.com]

It happened today on Superball Sunday, so the good news is that you can go to see any current movie playing and pretty much own the theater.

We're going to 27 Dresses and then out to dinner (since the restaurants of Pittsburgh will also be ours alone) and then to Juno.

I love Superball Sunday.

[jrtheotter.livejournal.com]

My DVD/VHS player had done something similar--and I did get a disk stuck, a disk from Netflix no less, which required disassembly to rescue--and hadn't worked for months. The VHS side works, not the DVD. Then cometh Grey for his holiday visit, who lays a hand on it and it works as if I'd imagined the whole problem. I do not look gift horses in the mouth, so a watching we went. Roughly one week after he left, it crapped out again.

So, umm... invite Grey over?

[garan-du.livejournal.com]

Wow, I can picture Grey travelling the countryside in a horse-drawn gypsy wagon doing tent revival healings of electronica.

[maliszew.livejournal.com]

DVD players are the most temperamental and disposable forms of electronics out there these days. I find most of them don't last more than a couple of years, even the good brands, and their prices don't make it worthwhile to try and repair them when they break down. Even more annoying to me is how each DVD player has its own idiosyncratic criteria for which DVDs it'll play. I can't tell you how often a player will just decide it doesn't like this DVD or that oen, while another player will have no problem with them.

Madness.

[baalbuster.livejournal.com]

I got the Futurama movie when it came out, and it wouldn't play on our DVD player. So, for Yule, I got Ed an HD-DVD player. One week later, all these articles came out that HD-DVD is the Betamax to BluRay's VHS, and that HD-DVD will probably go the way of the dodo. Electronics can be a harsh mistress!

[eytan-bernstein.livejournal.com]

We just bought a new DVD (that also record and rewrites) from Costco for $80.

[emessar.livejournal.com]

I bought a Panasonic DVD player when DVD technology was still fairly new. I think it cost around $400 at the time. I'm still using the same disc player and I've only found one or two movies that it had trouble reading.

I don't know that I'd bother with Blue Ray or HD-DVD just yet since no-one has won the fight yet and the dual players are insanely expensive.

[princeofcairo.livejournal.com]

Our cheapo Philips DVD player just conked out a week ago; it had long since refused to open its tray unless it already had a DVD in there, but it finally just refused to read any DVD ever.

So I bought a new bare-bones Philips for $40. I figure by the time this one conks out, they'll be giving the things away with copies of Snow Day.