I'm not sure if this post should go here, or under "Humor" or under a new category called "Things that make you want to bang your head against a wall".
About a week ago, my husband mentioned that he wanted to see again an old mobster movie that he really likes. He thought that they were showing it on cable that day, but he couldn't find it, and when I went online to look up the schedule, neither could I.
Anyway, in order to surprise him, I looked on eBay and I found the movie really cheap -- under $4.00 including shipping. It said High Definition, but all our TV's are high-definition, so that's great, right? So I ordered it, waited less than 5 days and I got it yesterday.
I tell my husband, I have a surprise for you! I got you the movie you wanted to see! He's really happy and said "Great, I'll watch it after dinner".
All was well until I opened the package.
Uh oh...the CD box is square instead of rectangular, and says HD-DVD. Uh oh. This has nothing to do with the quality of the television output. This is that now defunct *$*@#&^%* HD format... I could have slapped myself for being so stupid as to not realize that there used to be an incompatible HD-DVD format. It came and went so quickly, that I forgot all about it.
Now, over the years we have somehow ended up with a total of eight(!) DVD players in this house (not counting the five DVD burners that we have in our various computers). Yeah, I know, that's way too many. We should give a few away to Goodwill.
We have an old Panasonic DVD/VCR combo (which we never use); three Daewoo multi-format code-free DVD players (all will automatically play PAL or NTSC, and any region DVD); an old Centrius DVD player/recorder; a Philips DVD player that will play .AVI files on data DVD's as well as standard DVD's; a Magnavox portable DVD player (for travel use); and an Insignia portable DVD player which I bought second-hand for travel use, until my husband bought me the Magnavox (and yeah, we do sooooo much travelling...NOT). Most of these will also play CD-RW's, DVD-RW's, music disks, photo disks, etc., and a lot of other stuff that I don't bother with.
Plus we also have five DVD burners on our computers, that will play movies. And music. And data disks. And CD-RW's. And DVD-RW's. And etc.
Anyway, one of them is bound to be compatible with this god-forsaken HD-DVD disk, right?
Wrong. Not a single one would play the freaking HD-DVD.
So now we have a fancy $4.00 coaster. And we'll be stopping by Blockbuster tomorrow.
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"Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level." --Quentin Crisp
"Don't get too attached to things; remember that you come into this world with nothing, and in the end, you leave with nothing." -- from 1 Timothy 6:7
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