Looking at price points
Jan. 10th, 2011 03:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threemonkeysWas in Dick Smith's this morning and I noticed that the VCR recorders have finally disappeared. They may have been gone for a while but I hadn't noticed. For a long time they were hidden down on the lowest shelves gathering dust. In many ways its surprising that they survived as long as they did, but then again they were a robust mature technology and some people still have large collections of tapes. No doubt that you can still get players at various niche providers.
The above observation was prompted by noticing that DVD players are going the same way. Dickies still sell them, but in a low cost commodity way - the same way that VCR recorders were a while back. When you can get a DVD player for less than half the cost of a tank of petrol, it is very much in the minor purchase bracket.
Why look at DVD players. Because mine was getting more and more "quirky" over time. When even opening the disk tray is an exercise in patience then perhaps it is time for a replacement. It was getting so that I wasn't watching DVDs because of the hassle factor. Oddly enough, I did have two players, but I gave one away. I'm not sure whether it is a consolation or not that I ended up keeping the dud.
So now that I have a working machine, that actually works as it is supposed to, it is time to start watching all those series again. But which one to start with...?
The above observation was prompted by noticing that DVD players are going the same way. Dickies still sell them, but in a low cost commodity way - the same way that VCR recorders were a while back. When you can get a DVD player for less than half the cost of a tank of petrol, it is very much in the minor purchase bracket.
Why look at DVD players. Because mine was getting more and more "quirky" over time. When even opening the disk tray is an exercise in patience then perhaps it is time for a replacement. It was getting so that I wasn't watching DVDs because of the hassle factor. Oddly enough, I did have two players, but I gave one away. I'm not sure whether it is a consolation or not that I ended up keeping the dud.
So now that I have a working machine, that actually works as it is supposed to, it is time to start watching all those series again. But which one to start with...?