Gone are the days when you could pop a video in the player and be good to go? On Saturday I bought

[ohiosmith]

Girl With the Dragon Tattoo on Blu-Ray for $11.00. Went home, made a drink, put the DVD in the player.

Message: "Can not play this disc". WTF! The player is a Sony, the disc is a Sony. Tried again. "disc not recognized". Fuck me! Tried again. "non compatible disc". SONOFABITCH!

Went online. "some discs will not play without firmware upgrade". Shit!

Today: Connected player to Internet, downloaded new firmware, installed new firmware, tried video, IT WORKS!

I miss my VHS!

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Me too!

[ohiosmith]

2. You knew my VHS?!

That two-timing player!

[Iggo]

3. Once a player, always a player.

Know'm say'n?

[ohiosmith]

4. Now I'm glad I pulled the plug!

[Ptah]

5. $16.49. Problem sloved!

[RagAss]

6. LOL !...pissing here.

[HopeHoops]

11. I use that line all the time - "Rewind that, will you?"

[texanwitch]

7. Any kind of a scratch can make the disk skip or not work at all.

I still have vcr.

It is a double unit, with a dvd playe/recorder and vcr.

I play a video tape to remember the good old days.

VCR's had their problems, like eating tapes.

Nothing like a favorite tape biting dust.

There are a lot of commericals on the new dvd's.

[ohiosmith]

8. I gave away all of my tapes except ones I recorded. A lot of them had degraded from the heat here.

I hate those ads. And on a lot of them you can't fast forward.

[texanwitch]

9. It is like going to the movies, the movie doesn't start for 20 minutes.

I am copying all my tapes to dvd's, then tossing the tapes.

Dvd's do take up less space.

The tapes that filled up a big box now fit into a big 3 ring school binder.

[HopeHoops]

12. If you get the little "NO" icon with fast forward, try skip track. That usually works.

[HopeHoops]

10. I bought the full series of the original "Star Trek" on eBay and thought I'd been ripped off.

None of the disks in the first season set would play - none. The 2nd and 3rd seasons were just fine. On a whim, I turned one of the 1st season disks over and put it in - it worked fine, as did all of the others. They'd printed the title information on the wrong side of the inner rings, but just for season 1.

BTW, "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" is one damn good movie.

[bigwillq]

13. My DVD player has the parental lock on

and I don't know the password to turn it off. Sometimes it won't let me play Rated R movies.
Now I just watch everything on my laptop.