AKICILJ: Need a new DVD player
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carbonelI had someone coming over tonight to watch the third episode of Sherlock with me, and since I'd had to burn the second episode to a DVD rather than a CD, I thought I'd see if my DVD player could cope with rewritable DVDs, if I burned the additional episode to it.
Except that the DVD player (where the disk was) wouldn't open. And nothing displayed on the screen. The "on" light was on, and when I hit the eject button, it went into a blinky mode, but that's all. Since I paid all of $60 or so for the player in the first place at least five years ago, I don't suppose it owes me anything, but it's annoying. Especially since my computer's DVD burner appears to have become fractious at the pretty much the same time. (It deals with DVDs okay, but it refuses to recognize or burn CDs.)
Any recommendations for a new DVD player? It needs to be region-free (or hackable to be so), and play .avi files. It would be nice if it played .mp4 and .mkv files also. And I'd really, really like it to be able to play those from a USB thumb drive, so I don't have to burn disposable DVDs and CDs for things I'm only going to watch once.
I'm open to arguments that I should be purchasing a Blu-Ray player, though my current inclination is to not bother.
And if anyone knows of any deals for external USB DVD burners, I'd appreciate information on that as well.
Except that the DVD player (where the disk was) wouldn't open. And nothing displayed on the screen. The "on" light was on, and when I hit the eject button, it went into a blinky mode, but that's all. Since I paid all of $60 or so for the player in the first place at least five years ago, I don't suppose it owes me anything, but it's annoying. Especially since my computer's DVD burner appears to have become fractious at the pretty much the same time. (It deals with DVDs okay, but it refuses to recognize or burn CDs.)
Any recommendations for a new DVD player? It needs to be region-free (or hackable to be so), and play .avi files. It would be nice if it played .mp4 and .mkv files also. And I'd really, really like it to be able to play those from a USB thumb drive, so I don't have to burn disposable DVDs and CDs for things I'm only going to watch once.
I'm open to arguments that I should be purchasing a Blu-Ray player, though my current inclination is to not bother.
And if anyone knows of any deals for external USB DVD burners, I'd appreciate information on that as well.
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External DVD Burners
Date: 2012-02-04 04:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-04 05:08 am (UTC)I don't have a lot of data to backup, but if I did, then that seems like possibly a good reason to get a Blu-Ray burner.