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[shadesong]

* I live! Not doing too great today. Out of it.

* My favorite aunt is in the hospital with a broken hip. Adam asked how old she was. I calculated... 69. That's old. When did my favorite aunt get old? We're all getting old...

Ach, never mind me today.

* Bought a new DVD player today with birthday money. It is a Sony. I am very brand-loyal when it comes to electronics.

My brand-new Sony cost less than $100.

Didn't DVD players used to cost like $300? This is not a cheap-shit machine. This is a good machine. The only "better" machine was a multi-disc player.

* I am making some hilarious typos today. This is my medication. Hi, medication. (This is part of why I'm having trouble with columns, Monkey. Not just keeping a train of thought. But also multiple typos in every sentence.)

Resting now.

Comments

[ckd]

DVD players are rapidly approaching what I call the "Cracker Jack prize" level. (Yes, that dates me, showing that I'm old enough to remember when they actually had toy surprises instead of little pieces of cardboard you can fold to make pictures.)

Name brands are under $100; no-name brands cost less than a pair of recent release DVDs (which I usually see at about $20 each). Crazy.

USB flash drives? Already at the "we can give it away with a logo on it" level.

$300??

[filmzombie74.livejournal.com]

Well, DVD players have cost $300 but I remember when I bought my first player. It was a Sony DVP-7000, Sony's FIRST ever player. It had 2 dip switches inside that I could pull down and de-activate the macrovision copy guard and region coding. Price?....umm, $1100.....yeah, lol...Now I mostly use a $35 cyberhome because it is region free and converts PAL to NTSC so I can watch European dvds. Yep, it's amazing what time does to electronics prices.

Re: $300??

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Price?....umm, $1100....

Duuuude.

Yeah. You were an early adopter, huh? *laugh*

We made sure this one will play DVD-Rs so we can watch all the goodies Joe gives us. Did I tell you we couldn't watch Ong-Bak or Kung-Fu Hustle on the old player? My husband still hasn't seen 'em. Sad. :(

Re: $300??

[filmzombie74.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that IS sad! Yep, I have this bad habit of being impatient and just having to have new technology when it comes out. I do try and fight it when I can. With 2 brand new totally different DVD formats coming this summer, I am going to need all my friends giving me support and making me be as strong as I can.....If I can't get help at Charter, I must get help somewhere!

Re: $300??

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah, we weren't rich to begin with, but with me being part-time now.... major voice-of-moderation over here!

Re: $300??

[filmzombie74.livejournal.com]

I'm not rich either...which makes things much worse lol...(Stewie's Voice) "Moderation is gooood...you're...you're doing goooood"

[boutell.livejournal.com]

> I live.

Hmm. As in "just barely," or as in "RUN, COWARD!"?

[wolfette]

69 is not "old" - and it's certainly rather young to be suffering from a broken hip, unless she was in a traumatic accident!

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Slipped and fell on ice. :(

[wolfette]

Well, I guess that *might* do it.

My gran was 86 when she broke her hip - apparently the hips are pretty hard to break until you get older and start to suffer from osteoporosis.

[weofodthignen]

My mother just broke hers at 73. I heard it the other way round--you can break a hip rather startlingly easily after middle age but your chances of recovering from it decline dramatically every decade.

Fortunately my mother is doing just great so, phew :-)

M

[cyber-pagan.livejournal.com]

so now you can watch "The Specials" on your new dvd player, and not the ps2 *grin*

[beowabbit]

I have a Sony 5-disk changer. It was less than $100.

[yendi]

They were selling a Sony 400-disc changer! I wanted it, but it was nearly $400.

[beowabbit]

I was interested in those when they first came out, but now I carry around... hmmm... *find | grep* 426 CDs in my pocket.

Oh, wait.

400 DVDs? Yow!

I look forward to the time when I can carry around 400 DVDs in my pocket! Although the sixth or eighth time I get arrested for masturbating on the subway while I'm looking at this little screen, it’s gonna get old. :-)

[jamesd.livejournal.com]

Fundamental price limit for DVD players is lower than for VCRs. Harder to get all the fiddly mechanical bits of VCRs right. DVD features are mostly software and electronics.

But computers beat DVD players. Just buy, rip to disk and play from there and store your masters in a secure location, away from dirt.

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

Hell, our DVD player cost $15 and while all we needed was something that would just fucking *play* the damned DVD, because our XBox was unreliable...we ended up with some amazingly nice functionality. For $15. Wow.