DVD Player Craps Out, Grey’s Anatomy, Taking Action

May 23rd, 2007

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TelevisionLast night our DVD player crapped out. It just stopped recognizing the silver discs of wonder. Normally this wouldn’t be a pressing problem, but my wife is in the midst of a Grey’s Anatomy marathon. We’re halfway through season two where Meredith is revealed to be too easy for her own good and Dr. McDreamy’s wife gets poison oak on her nether-regions. In other words, not a good time for hardware issues.

Anyhow, for the past month or so, I’ve been hemming and hawing about getting an HD television, remaining unsure or confused about what size, the benefits of DVD upsampling, contrast ratios, component vs. HDMI, price comparisons, brand reliability, etc… and basically deciding the heck with it.

So if you want to see determined decision-making and an end to procrastination, deny someone the knowledge of whether Izzie sleeps with Alex or the heart-transplant patient.

After work, I was whisked away to Circuit City to purchase a Samsung 23 inch LCD TV and DVD player. The size is right for our needs, and it was all for a good price except for the freaking HDMI cable. Luckily, I did some research before via Consumer Reports and figured out a somewhat decent model to buy. Because of the urgency, I think we were in and out of there in under five minutes.

I’ve now put all this stuff together and hooked up the surround sound under the watchful eye of my wife, because it’s critically important to see if the pole impaling two patients simultaneously can be removed without one of them dying. Before Meredith has sex with someone else, of course.

But lest I get too smug, someone’s now reminding me that same thing would have happened if the show in question were Battlestar Galactica.

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  • Hey Jase, you could always return the DVD player and use the PS2...just a thought...
  • Seems like that was too obvious. Likewise was watching the DVD on either computer.

    But the DVD player was under a hundred bucks. Kinda crazy how low the prices have sunk.

    Of course, all the price savings on the hardware is made up by the stupid cables, as mentioned above, I think I got ripped off on the HDMI which cost as much as the DVD player...!
  • I hope you didn't get a DVD/TV combo. Those combos are HORRIBLE.

    The player will always crap out before the TV, and because they use the same power switch it means you might not be able to turn on the TV (although, for $25 a local electrician can usually rewire it).
  • No, we bought a samsung HD LCD TV and a standalone samsung DVD player.

    I hear you on the combo issues. I did make a mistake of getting a combo device before - our first DVD player in the form of a Sony surround sound 5 disc changer Dream System I bought gee... four or five years ago? The DVD player stopped working.

    I was pissed when that happened, hence the Panasonic sub-100 dollar player that lasted three years.

    Luckily, the original Sony has optical in so I'm still using it for the surround sound. It's now just a glorified amplifier...
  • You want a PS3 for playing DVDs. It has like an upscalar that makes even normal DVDs look better. Plus if you have dynamic color on you TV that's almost Blu Ray! Use it all the time for the Sopranos and the Wire.
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