a quest of sorts
No unaccompanied scary goblin children, please
Originally uploaded by Camille L..
i've written about my new-found addiction to the television series, "lost." well.... for weeks i have known that the second season would be arriving (via a friend of a friend, to borrow) yesterday. in preparation, i decided that i needed to purchase a DVD player. i had had a small portable DVD player (a gift, thanks Pixar!) but it finally died. maybe it's fixable, i don't know. that's really a potential headache for me at this point.
i had been thinking that our TV was too old to connect to a DVD player, as there were no yellow/red/white cable connectors in the back. i was sad. no no.... i was LAMENTING this.
there's an older technology still in use here, really old school, just a big, black, scary cable. i discovered this technology at work and then came home to look at the back of our TV and HUZZAH! HUZZAH! the scary black cable connector existed.... and thus..... my quest for a multi-region DVD player began. not only did i need to watch "lost," i need to watch the many DVDs i have from america that are all "region 1."
went to one store. explained what i needed. the guy was like, "oh, yes yes... this is multiregion." well, of course it wasn't. came home, plugged it in, and was completely defeated when i saw the "yanlis bolge" (wrong region) message pop up. damnnnnnnnnn. was prepared to fight to the death to get my money back from this store, but a nice girl who spoke decent english was helping me, and she found one that she was certain was multi-region. she said if it wasn't, i could bring it back to her and they would give me the cash back. it was 89 YTL (~55 USD) and let me tell you........ it works like a charm! i watched 4 episodes of "lost" last night, popped in a few region 1 DVDs and they ALL worked. hallelujah. it's very exciting! i think it will play all kinds of media-- DVDs, DIVX DVDs (illegal ones), mp3s, data discs, whatever.... it even has karaoke.
so.... if you're wondering where i am or what i am doing, now you know. my quest has been fulfilled.
posted by camille @ 11:08 AM
2 Comments:
Figure out what it can play - that will open up the possibilities of what I can send - Love Dad
I too, have been absorbed into Lost. And I, too, have resorted to illegality to watch it. Waiting for the second season to be released on DVD was not sufficiently speedy, so I grabbed it all from BitTorrent. I finished the last of season 2 last night and now I'm going through withdrawl waiting for season 3 to air.
And what is this crap about airing the first half of the episodes starting in October, then taking a hiatus until February to finish the season? What are they trying to do to me? Can't they see that I'm ill!?
There is the small problem that I lack cable or an antenna at my house, and thus cannot watch season 3 when it comes out. So I'll have to download bootlegs of that as well. My life of crime is spiralling out of control. I just hope that someone digitizes it and makes it available approximately 0.4 microseconds after it is done airing. Because I must have it.
Anyway, in the end of season two, everyone dies and the world explodes. Then Jack and Sawyer get married and move to Zanzibar, where they start taking opium rectally. I hope I didn't ruin it for you.
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