Is there anyone left who doesn't have a DVD player?

[vakkotaur]

A couple days ago I got yet another bit of advertising nonsense from a car dealer. In this case, in Algona IA which is a bit out of my way. I don't need a different car but the advert was revealing. Like many such adverts, this had a prize offering and went so far as to claim "Guaranteed winner."

There were five prizes. A couple were cash, a few were not. The odds in the fine print were interesting. Very high odds against the cash and the LCD TV and something else. And near-certainty of getting a DVD player. But showing up doesn't get a person a DVD player. It gets a person a mail-in certificate for a DVD player and whoever sends for it gets to pay about $15 shipping.

That's how cheap DVD players have become: they are now give-away items for used car dealers. With the certificate bit, they don't even have to stock anything more than paper certificates.

I have no reason to go to Algona this Saturday, and there's already one DVD player in the house that isn't being used. It's not in the way, so it's kept as a spare. But I am now wondering if there is anyone around that still doesn't have a DVD player.

Comments

[nefaria.livejournal.com]

My little sister finally installed hers this January. I can't watch movies on tape anymore; DVD seems to be about halfway between cinema and VHS in image quality.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Mine isn't working at the moment - does that count?