So after yesterday's pretty average day, we watched a free-to-air Air Crash Investigations and then we thought we'd watch a movie.
That was a very silly idea.
Our internet is so bad that Netflix is pretty much out of the question.
The DVD part of our PS3 died years ago so we couldn't watch a dvd on that.
My DVD recorder has recently been dropping out the video and it's been getting worse, dropping out all the time and making movies pretty much unwatchable.
So I dug out my old Toshiba DVD player from under the house but then I was looking at the back of the recorder and all the fricken outputs have cables hanging out. So I couldn't even easily tell which outputs it was using to swap them to the other player. So I went and lost it for a while.
Came back a while later and traced through some of the spaghetti. There's standard video/audio out going into the tv, although I don't think we've been using that. But I plugged those into my dvd player and set the tv to av mode and up it came. W00t. So we put Enemy at the Gates on, which I'd seen a long time ago, but could only remember the beginning, and Stu had never seen it.
Half an hour later it degraded so badly that we couldn't watch it. I thought it was the dvd, but (after battling for ages to get it to even play) it played through that part of the disk on my computer. I tried to get a little wifi dongle working in my computer so that I could Chromecast it, but it wouldn't work.
So I went to bed.
Sigh.
Got to sleep ok but woke up when Stu came to bed and stayed awake for ages. And hurty kept me awake for a while too.
So I was still super grumpy today.
So I went into work to use the internet to geotag all my holiday photos. About the only success I had all weekend.
Mostly did a jigsaw in the afternoon. It rained, it even hailed, so didn't do any washing.
Around dinner time (Stu was still cooking and cleaning, bestest sweetie ever), I went down to Kit's to meet the new Ben, and after a glass of wine and a bit of socialising with Kit felt a lot better. I was telling her the sad story of the dvd player, and she pulled an old one out of her cupboard and said, here you go, try that. So we did. And it did actually work for the most part, although it did have similar problems with audio and video a couple of times while we were watching it. So it was a very frustrating experience. But we did finally finish watching the movie.
I feel like I need a weekend to recover from my weekend.
David
Laser BD3000. $79 at BigW today and tomorrow. Plays anything.
Might be worth talking to your ISP and getting a line test done.
Kazza the Blank One
JB HiFi priced matched it yayy :)
Stu logged a support ticket last week, but didn't get any response so he spent two hours on hold last night trying to talk to them. They're coming on Thursday.