I bought a DVD player on Tuesday. I am going to use it to watch movies.
(I also had to get this ridiculous adapter because my TV only takes a coaxial antenna cable.)
It came with a remote control device, which I appreciate as my TV does not have one.
(My old remote caught fire in 2003 from a candle which overflowed onto my rug whilst I lay asleep. I was awoken at 4am by my smoke alarm wailing like a banshee, the most acrid smell imaginable assailing my olfactories, to find said remote illuminated and twitching like Brundle’s final half-machine incarnation in The Fly – a movie, incidentally, which I own on DVD – in the centre of a smouldering black hole in my rug.
But I digress.)
It also came with a voucher for two weeks’ free membership of WebFlicks, another NetFlicks-alike ala Bigpond Movies, which I have been contemplating joining for ages although I’ve resisted for financial reasons. Further investigation is called for on this front.
I was assured that my DVD player was multi-region capable, but neither my region 1 copy of Baise Moi nor – most disappointingly – my region 2 edition of the BFI‘s Early Films of Peter Greenaway Vol. 2 will really play properly. Which is sad.
(Now I need a DVD burner, which will provide a way around that problem.)
I have not yet actually watched a movie as such using the DVD player, but I have played the following movies on the DVD player in a wallpapery sort of a way:
That I Own
- From Dusk Till Dawn (10 years old this year; time flies)
- Josie & The Pussycats (best movie ever)
- A Clockwork Orange (i feel i should say something here, because I did for the other two.. er.. try the waaaine.. real ‘orrorshow etc etc)
That My Neighbour Rented
- Mr & Mrs Smith (the parts I paid attention to were good)
- Eulogy
(in which the presence of the evil Ray “loved by everybody” Romano is compensated for by that of the godlike Zooey Deschanel) - Fight Club (which I actually own, although my copy is held in Canberra by my friend the mysterious E)