We have found out that our DVD player is obsolete. We have had that thing for some time (7 or 8 years). We bought one shortly after they first came out as affordable electronics - WS got it as either my Birthday or Christmas present.
This thing is an early model that has to stop and think every 20 minutes or so. So while watching a movie, there is a sudden freeze up of the frame - then about 5 seconds later it catches up and starts playing again. Knowing that the newer models don't do that, I've thought about getting a new player but have never justified getting one to myself for just that little fault.
Now we have a new problem; some DVDs won't play on it. If we watched movies closer to the time I buy them, we would have caught this fact sooner. We tried to watch the 3rd Matrix movie last week, but the DVD player kept saying "no disc". I figured the disc was messed up so I was going to exchange it (having bought it 6-12 months ago, I no longer have the reciept, so an exchange is the best that I could hope for).
Last night I decided to try it on my little TV in the workout room (it is a cheepie TV that has both DVD and VCR player built in) - and the DVD played fine in there. So, the format that the disc was created in is new enough, and different enough, that our DVD player doesn't recognize it at all - it's not a bad disc.
I wonder how many other movies are sitting there waiting for us to discover that we can't watch them!
I had an RCA DVD player that I bought some 6 years ago. For the most part it worked without a hitch. But a couple of years ago I bought a DVD that nt only wouldn't play on the player, it would actually shut off the player every time I attempted to play that movie.
I have since replaced that player and the problem hasn't recurred.
Posted by: DCE | December 16, 2006 at 10:52 PM
hmm, food for thought.
Posted by: bogie | December 17, 2006 at 06:18 AM
We just watched the 3rd DVD that has ever been in our machine. You can imagine the smirk on my face when Hunky Husband played it and got the wrong movie--and gunched about it--and I sweetly told him that if he'd play the DVD instead of the VHS, we would see "Iceage: Meltdown" instead of "2001".
Posted by: Cop Car | December 17, 2006 at 08:37 AM
HH can't feel too bad - WS did that just a couple of weeks ago.
Posted by: bogie | December 18, 2006 at 04:01 AM