So I’ll Never Be a Luddite
Would you think I was a bad parent if I admitted that life without a DVD/VCR player kind of sucks? Yeah, well YOU try to go two months without one and then report back to me. I will graciously accept your apology and let you gush all over me for being so totally right.
Ours now resides in the large dead electronics pile that occupies a sizeable footprint of space just inside our privacy fence and is starting to look like some kind of Unabomber-themed art installation called “Technology Sucks Donkey Butt.” Personally, I’d have named it “Cheap Electronics from China Suck Donkey Butt” but whatever.
So I’m off to begrudgingly buy another one and this time? I’m purchasing one of them there “We Think You Are a Total Sucker and a Dumb One at That” extended warranties that they’re always trying to sell you — and which they totally should when you’re buying the el cheapo grande $69 DVD/VCR player. Not that I would know anything about that. Ahem.
We gave up our VCR when we got our home theatre thingamabobby, and we actually have a budget item where we save up to buy the replacement home theatre system when the kids are finished trashing this one. DH bought the cheapest home theatre he could find and oddly enough, we’ve had it almost two years without it getting killed (which is good, because the puke is bad enough this week, without me having to entertain the buggers, too), which is rare for us because we typically go through at least one per year. Good luck with the extended warranty thing - I’ve often wondered if they are worth it or not.
Two words …. On Demand. FIOS and cable offers it, and you can get a DVR with satellite cable or FIOS. Nothing like being able to call up a list of kids shows on any TV in the house.
Good luck with that.
Dude, we HAVE FIOS, the DVR, On-Demand..the whole enchilada.
Unfortunately, On-Demand doesn’t have “The Last Mimzy”, “Little People Big Discoveries” or anything from the Strawberry Shortcake or Polly Pockets back catalogue.
Plus, that would be entirely too easy. In THIS family? We like to do it the hard way. Makes for a much better story when mommy gets carted off to the looney bin.
Two months!!!! I went FORTY EIGHT!!! Hours…… but that is not the point. It was a long freaking time.
I bow to your amazingness. I couldn’t have lasted, and all my kids are in school.
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No way I could go that long without a DVD player. At least, not as a parent.
Personally, I would probably be OK, as long as I still had my Tivo.
Oh, no DVD player would blow. We’re also still fairly reliant on our VCR.
Hope you get a good one this time.
Word to the poster singing the praises of On-Demand. I rarely rent DVDs, but not a week goes by that I don’t order something On-Demand. (And a lot of them are free.)
(Electronics burial ground? You should see my basement.)
No REAL mother on earth can go without a DVD player. Well, you could — but then you’d go INSANE!!
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Yup, I’m in the DVR/ON Demand/TiVo camp. You’d be surprised what you can find with those that would make “The Last Mimzy” (whatever that is) a distant memory. Our DVD/VCR player is a dust collector.
I could “Probably” go without a DVD player (MAYBE) for myself. My kids? NO freaking way.
However, I would shrivel up and die a thousand deaths without my DVR.
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Hey I bought one for $39 when my old one broke. I only made it 48 hours before I caved.
We occasionally use on-demand for movies but man, it really adds up. And then when they go out of rotation, you wish you just had the DVD. And a player on which to watch it, of course. Can we have yours? lol
The Last Mimzy is a really cool movie that came out last year. It’s part environmental cautionary tale and part science fiction with a dash of ET thrown in. I highly recommend it for kids about 7 and up.
I love my DVR, too. If it was a man, I’d marry it. Or at least give it a great blow job.
We’re never without a DVD player - 4 players in our house (1 region-free, 1 region-2 and 2 region-1s) plus the Playstation2 and a DVR. As Americans living in Germany, almost all of our television entertainment comes via DVD. (CNN doesn’t count as entertainment.)
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The love you have for your DVR, I have for my Wii. And maybe food.
Come on over to our house where all electronics sucks. A smartass child - maybe just an uniformed child - came over last year and said, “Mrs. Parker, where is the big television in this house?” Missy, we ain’t got one, and the 24′ you see has no cable and flashes into black and white most of the time.
All the cheapo electronics are too frustrating to maintain because they break all the time. Hello, China!! Play the dvd on your computer.
And when you buy the warrenty, it will be the one to last for 50 years! Isn’t that always the way?
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You know, I totally would play it on my computer or my husbands IF my son hadn’t inserted foreign objects in BOTH fricken DVD drives. Mine has a penny in it and his has a paperclip in it. Toddlers… *sigh*
We can’t keep a DVD player alive. We lose at least one every year. I don’t know how we ALWAYS pick the lemon. And I produce DVDs as a business. You’d think I could operate the player without breaking it.
Yeah, i’m not quite sure how my mom did it - we had no TV when I was a kid.
omg, here I am grandma, and Noah calls Hi gram, can I come over and bring a dvd and we can watch Alice in Wonderland? Now I ask what am I to do. I bought a $100. small tv from Sears, with dvd and put the in home warranty. No problem and me and Noah lay on the couch and watch dvds for hours….Sears has great service. Can’t be with out one…
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