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I need a DVD player. It'd be cool if it could play mpegs and xvid and stuff. VHS would be nice, but I could just get a VHS player elsewhere. (I also need a coax in, so I was thinking that DVD+VHS wouldn't have these but a junker VHS would). How do I purchase shitty consumer electronics?

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 04:27 (twenty years ago)

i need new speakers. i don't want to spend a lot of money, but i want better ones than the old ones, which were deemed very shitty by several people (i don't care, they were free, stolen from my dad).

― fellini-esque-lit-rockist (tehresa), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 04:44 (twenty years ago)

i just got a new dvd player i'm totally pleased with. philips dvp5140. plays dvds, xvid, divx, lots of other media files, basically anything you throw at it. takes 2 seconds to change to multi-region. remote contorl is pretty dece. and it was cheap!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 04:51 (twenty years ago)

does it have coax in?

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 05:47 (twenty years ago)

I NEED A TV

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:51 (twenty years ago)

why the hell you need coax in on a DVD player?
you mean "coax OUT" because your TV only has coax in?
In that case you can't use a VCR to bridge the coax gap because Macrovision will reckanize and fuck your signal up.
The best tool for the job is a pelican switchbox or a A/V receiver unit.
If you find a DVD player with a built-in coaxial output let me know because I'm pretty sure the MPAA might pay me for the information.
What you want to do is take the make and model slocki referenced and type it into froogle. you're in fucking NYC, you have more consumer electronics retailers than humans know how to deal with.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:03 (twenty years ago)

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=DVD+xvid+region+free&hl=en&btnG=Search

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=rf+modulator&hl=en&btnG=Search

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:10 (twenty years ago)

philips dvp 642, bitch

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:12 (twenty years ago)

region free capable, plays divx/xvid, cheap

good luck finding one tho

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:13 (twenty years ago)

region free capable, plays divx/xvid, cheap

that is every dvd player manufactured since 2004

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:18 (twenty years ago)

man i need a new DVD player, ive been using my PS2 simce my last one died.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:29 (twenty years ago)

jon, just do a series of websearches on whichever model, print it out and take it to either j&r or pc richards...they will typically match price. or take the same info up to midtown and haggle.

other option is to go out to flushing and haggle, but yr korean and mandarin skills might make it tricky.

― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:39 (twenty years ago)

why the hell you need coax in on a DVD player?
you mean "coax OUT" because your TV only has coax in?

NO! YOU STUPID NIT. YOU CONDESCENDING OLD FUCK.

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:08 (twenty years ago)

what do you need to coax in for, jon? you should be able to use a switch box, right.

― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:15 (twenty years ago)

philips dvp 642, bitch

the one i mentioned is, i think, the newer version of the dvp642

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

I need to figure out how to go back & forth from direcTV & DVD/VHS without redoing the connex every time.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:24 (twenty years ago)

MAYBE YOU SHOULKD REALIZE I HAVE AWESOME VINTAGE GEAR!!!! WHAT ARE THESE SWITCH BOXES? MY "TV" (DIGITAL PROJECTOR) DOESN'T DO COAX IN!

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:24 (twenty years ago)

jon, just do a series of websearches on whichever model, print it out and take it to either j&r or pc richards...they will typically match price. or take the same info up to midtown and haggle.

OK you know I don't know shit about tech but everything w/ a plug in my apt broke down this summer so I've been consumer-electronics shopping lately and this method definitely works. kthxbye

― gaye liberal arts dad (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:25 (twenty years ago)

MORBZ, APPARENTLY WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SWITCH BOXES

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:27 (twenty years ago)

also the dvp5140 doesn't have a coaxial in... i've never heard of a stand-alone dvd player that does!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:29 (twenty years ago)

Yea I figured no.

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:30 (twenty years ago)

it's cheap though! i got mine for $80 canadian.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:31 (twenty years ago)

that is every dvd player manufactured since 2004

-- TOMBOT (tombo...), August 30th, 2006 8:18 AM. (TOMBOT) (later) (admin)

you are an idiot, show me another region free dvd player that plays divx as DATA for $55

mr knowitall knownothing

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

get thee to radio shack, boys. now, i'm not The Most Savey in this arena, but there are a variety of little boxes and converters to help new things communicate with old things. sometimes that gets xpensive (as it did for the last installation we did at the fireproof), but there should be a way.

whoa, thats like 16 bucks, i should get one of those. as i also need dvd player (cause im dying to watch this ira cohen thing).

― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

The new Philips DVP5140 NTSC/PAL dvd player is a worthwhile upgrade to the popular Philips DVP642. The Philips DVP5140 produces a much better picture than the DVP642. The DVP5140 is "DivX Ultra" certified. The DVP5140 is an excellent example of Philips "plays it all" DVD players.

The DVP5140 uses a 12 bit/108 MHz video system instead of the 10 bit/54 MHz system used in the DVP642. The 12 bit/108 MHz video system produces visibly sharper images and natural colors. The quality of the picture on my 42 inch Plasma HDTV is very impressive.

One major complaint with DVD players concerns their inability to play damaged discs. The DVP5140 has successfully played imperfect discs that other players couldn't handle.

Using the "display" button on the remote, you can view the bit rate and other interesting information about the disc being played.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Bushwick Radio Shack was seemingly unable to comprehend what I wanted.
Broadway one gave me what Tom assumed despite me asking explicitly when handed item. Fuckers

xpost

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:39 (twenty years ago)

how do i shot DVD player that can read data CD-Rs with .mpgs or .avis burned on them? is that divx? is this what cutty's after? i'd like one too.

― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:45 (twenty years ago)

nobody would assume different from what I did because coax input on a dvd player makes NO SENSE

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:46 (twenty years ago)

brojangz: the one i'm pimping on this thread does just that

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:46 (twenty years ago)

http://i6.ebayimg.com/04/i/07/e0/37/a3_1.JPG

― =[[ (eman), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:47 (twenty years ago)

cutty try eBay

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:49 (twenty years ago)

jon you got that projector?

― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 13:00 (twenty years ago)

yeah, people at radioshack tend to be utter morons...if you go to one, try and find the oldest person in there. they tend to be better with knowing why radio shack exists at all (those times when electronics were less standardized and often required or allowed tweaking by the consumer to make a variety of things work to thir specifications). the one on manhattan ave (get thee to the B43) is pretty good. those are the guys i dealt with when trying to sequence a few (entirely different and from 80's/early 90's) monitors together.

― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 13:09 (twenty years ago)

cutty try eBay

i'm not talking about piece of shit apex and daewoos, which really do not constitute every dvd player made since 2004. idiot.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 13:13 (twenty years ago)

also s1ocki otm

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

sorry cutty I forgot you're special

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 15:40 (twenty years ago)

is this what they mean by "format wars"?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thepunishercomics.com/prestige_format/man_named_frank.jpg

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 15:55 (twenty years ago)

yeah, people at radioshack tend to be utter morons...if you go to one, try and find the oldest person in there.

OTM!!!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

i'm an electronics idiot, but is this what you're looking for?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:03 (twenty years ago)

radio shacks should have dilapidated wooden facades, creaky floorboards, no running water

― senior citizen (eman), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:07 (twenty years ago)

uhhh, is the rest of the board out to lunch? i come back and there are only 2 threads?

there must be other places in the city that sell wierd electronics

― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

or this?
or this?
or this?
or this?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

HEY I HATE DVD PLAYER

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

one of these days i should get a tv made after the reagan administration

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

I have a region-free Pioneer that also does QUALITY PAL conversion (not like those mickey mouse Philips flip-jobs). It was like $200 though a few years ago. There's a company in the East Bay that sells them, let me see if they've got a website.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:26 (twenty years ago)

does it divx?

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

yrad wrok

― JEANNE (ex libris), Saturday, 2 September 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)

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