My DVD player, my sweet little Toshiba SD-2109 from the year 2000, is dying. It won't play anything, just loads and loads. THE END, WHEN IT CAME, CAME QUICKLY. I was waiting for this to happen. It lasted longer than it should have, according to the expert assholes at Future Shop. Where I'll probably be going this afternoon, post-Pilates, to buy a new one. Because this sort of thing can't wait. The trains have to run on time, damn it. Clear that body off the tracks.
DVD players are so much cheaper now, it's insane. I wanted, with my breed of arbitrary brand loyalty, to get another Toshiba, but according to the expert assholes on the interweb I should go with a Sony DVP-NS5OP. An inexpensive but classy little model that looks like a cafeteria tray in brushed aluminum.
Seriously. I get attached to things like DVD players. It's a problem. But it was such an important purchase for me! It was my senior year of highschool and I planned it for months and months beforehand. I was so proud to be one of the people in the video store renting DVDs. I was prince of the goddamn apple towns! And I had to buy a hideously bulgy Samsung television (the behemoth now situated in the guest room of the cabin), just to handle the surge of raw DVD power. We were both so young.
When you turn off my Toshiba, it says goodbye. On the little, whatyacallit, the LED screen. GOODBYE, it says. Isn't that heartbreaking? Come on. That's heartbreaking.
Claire's Toshiba SD-2109
2000-2006
Forever loading, in our hearts.
2 comments:
Six years and it's dead? Sometimes I wonder about this technology stuff and how we all just tacitly accept that something will break down after a few years. It's not right, is it? Is it?
Poor toshi.
I happened upon your site looking for a manual to the DVD player you're considering for purchase. The DVP-NS5OP is not charming in any way, but it does its job without complaint. I don't think we should expect more from technology, that way when we get more it's seems magical.
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