The little pink box...

[fajrdrako]

Some years ago I bought a cheap DVD from Loblaw's, the grocery store. It cost $29.95 and it was a smallish tin box that could play DVDs, and mp3s - at at time when most DVD players cost about $300, and the multiregional ones cost more. Turns out this little gem of a machine would play British DVDs with no problem. They were too cheap to have regional encoding included. The machine had its idiosyncrasies, but I got used to them.

That was my primary DVD player for a while. Then I got the one I call my Miracle Machine, the LG LRH539, with its hard drive and its practically infinite functions - that's my cheap way of saying I haven't even discovered all the things it will do yet. I used the little Loblaw's machine as a secondary player, and discovered how handy a seconary player can be.

But recently the Loblaw's machine gave up on showing pictures. Since it cost me maybe $10 per year, I figured that it owed me nothing, and looked for a replement. Loblaw's now sells a small pink DVD player for $29.95, and I thought it over for weeks. Months. Did I really need another DVD player? Well, no, but I wanted one. Except it was pink. Pink? Unlike maaboroshi and ataniell93, I am not a pink sort of person. (No offense to those who are.) It wouldn't match anything in my living room. But ...

After much Libralike consideration and reconsideration, I decided today to get it. And did. And it turns out to be another miracle machine. Yes, it does what it says on the tin - it plays DVDs. Picture as well as sound. Progressive scan. (Remember when that cost extra?) But as a bonus - it plays multiregional DVDs, and you don't even need to fiddle with programming to persuade it to do so. And it plays mp3s - I'm listing to the music from Doctor Who on mp3 on it as I type. And it plays .avi files. It's tiny, it's clever, and it's well, pink....

I think I'm suddenly converted to pinkness.