DVD Player Swallowed My German DK-LA Disc

[brightknightie]

This morning, I impulsively, foolishly, tried one of my German first-season FK DVDs — which I usually play only in a multi-region travel-sized player — in the used DVD/VCR combo unit that my brother-in-law gave me. The machine not only wouldn't play it ("Region Error"!), it wouldn't give it back. Unscrewing all the screws was insufficient; I had to physically tear the unit apart to retrieve the DVD. I then dug out of my closet and reconnected my yet older DVD player and yet-yet older VHS player (necessary intermediary, as the TV has only one input: coaxial cable).

Now I have a big metal box that I can't legally throw in the trash, but must save interminably for an electronics-recycling drive. :-)

Later this year, I'll splurge on a television and associated equipment younger than the century! I wonder whether any stores would deliver the new machines and haul away the old ones (for a fee, naturally).

Comments

Re: What's on the German cuts?

[brightknightie]

>"At the very least, Schanke ought to be on there."

Yes. Especially as that particular one is from the second-season set, having Schanke in place of Stonetree would make, um, sense. :-)

The DVD design for FK is ridiculous all around, in both regions and all three seasons. FK is... FK. It is not, never was and never could be either Ann Rice or Stephanie Meyer (thank goodness). Packaging it as B-reel vampire horror is going to disappoint the people who do pick it up and repel the people who could have loved it if only they had known it.

>"I long for a definitive DVD set with all of the footage in one place."

:-) Mmmmmmmmm. Sweet, sweet, unlikely fantasies! ;-)

(Me, too.)