Will somebody please slow the progress of entertainment media so old geezers like me can catch up? My DVD player was running fine until a few weeks ago, when the TV died and I had to get Cletus the Cable Guy to come put up a new flat screen. He hooked up the DVD player and told me to hit a button on the remote to play a movie.
Well, I didn’t get up the nerve to try playing a movie right away. I have a life when I’m not booking time to watch movies at home, after all. So finally I tried the little button, inserted a DVD and it worked. Great, I said; we’ll play the movie tomorrow afternoon.
The following afternoon, I inserted the DVD, only to have it spat back out at me with the message “DVD Error.” I tried some other DVDs and got one or two to play, but most gave me the same message. Well, they were all fine DVDs yesterday, I said to myself, so I must have a problem with the player. The instruction manual (yes, I’m one of two people who can actually find the manual that comes with an appliance) suggested cleaning the DVD. I went to BestBuy®, who didn’t have a single DVD cleaner in stock. I went to a second BestBuy®, and the sales associate suggested I go to RadioShack®. Well, thank goodness some place still knows how to do business. They had two in stock, along with friendly sales associates.
The cleaner apparently didn’t work. So the obvious message is that I should, as any average American would do, ditch the old player and buy a new one, or go with an extensive (or expensive) upgrade to turn my home into a multi-media palace of instant entertainment gratification with streaming video, ambient sound coming from every wall and a monthly bill the size of a car payment. I’ll rent my discs and keep the electric bill down, thank you.
I guess I’ll go out and buy another player, which I assume will have to be Blu-Ray, another format doomed to go the way of all modern technology. The old machinery will wind up in a junk pile somewhere. Nobody repairs stuff anymore. There must be a Mount Everest of discarded appliances somewhere on this planet, tied together with old VHS tape.
Modern technology sucks.
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Posted at 3:36 am by kayewer, on November 23, 2014
Will somebody please slow the progress of entertainment media so old geezers like me can catch up? My DVD player was running fine until a few weeks ago, when the TV died and I had to get Cletus the Cable Guy to come put up a new flat screen. He hooked up the DVD player and told me to hit a button on the remote to play a movie.
Well, I didn’t get up the nerve to try playing a movie right away. I have a life when I’m not booking time to watch movies at home, after all. So finally I tried the little button, inserted a DVD and it worked. Great, I said; we’ll play the movie tomorrow afternoon.
The following afternoon, I inserted the DVD, only to have it spat back out at me with the message “DVD Error.” I tried some other DVDs and got one or two to play, but most gave me the same message. Well, they were all fine DVDs yesterday, I said to myself, so I must have a problem with the player. The instruction manual (yes, I’m one of two people who can actually find the manual that comes with an appliance) suggested cleaning the DVD. I went to BestBuy®, who didn’t have a single DVD cleaner in stock. I went to a second BestBuy®, and the sales associate suggested I go to RadioShack®. Well, thank goodness some place still knows how to do business. They had two in stock, along with friendly sales associates.
The cleaner apparently didn’t work. So the obvious message is that I should, as any average American would do, ditch the old player and buy a new one, or go with an extensive (or expensive) upgrade to turn my home into a multi-media palace of instant entertainment gratification with streaming video, ambient sound coming from every wall and a monthly bill the size of a car payment. I’ll rent my discs and keep the electric bill down, thank you.
I guess I’ll go out and buy another player, which I assume will have to be Blu-Ray, another format doomed to go the way of all modern technology. The old machinery will wind up in a junk pile somewhere. Nobody repairs stuff anymore. There must be a Mount Everest of discarded appliances somewhere on this planet, tied together with old VHS tape.
Modern technology sucks.
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