With bonus computer geekery question

[tanaise]

I could totally go to Plymouth this weekend. I mean, I could get up, call my aunt, and see if it would be an okay weekend to visit, and if it would be, there's a train out after work that would get me there in an hour and a half, and I could come back sunday night and not even miss meeting for reflection assuming the trains worked out right and all that. and this would be a stack of books, two pairs of Jeans, and a pile of tops and underwear in a backpack--I could pack this before work, even. Round trip would be about $15, counting the metro. So it would be doable. The question is, is this a good weekend for me to go? I mean, I'm freaking fragile lately, and I don't want to spend the whole weekend in tears. I'm leaning away from doing that, but perhaps towards going to cambridge.

In completely unrelated news, I have this now, and it's...wrong, somehow, and I don't know how, so I'm trusting someone out there will know. It won't play in my DVD player on my computer. It claims it's the wrong region code. Now, I bought it thinking it would be a region one, just like Amazon lists is, so I could send it back and get my money back. Only, it's the *right* DVD. Or it's a really freaking good fake. But there should be a little globe type thing on it somewhere, with a number in it, right?, and there isn't. Anywhere. At all. I pop it in my player, and it says, "wrong region code DVD" or whatever. So I don't know what's up with that, but I'd appreciate any help/suggestions/whatever. Obviously, if it's just a flawed DVD, I can return it and get a different one. but if they're all going to be like this one, I don't know what to do. Ultimately, what I'm asking is, a)what's up with this? and b) Is there still anyway I can watch it as it is?

Comments

[timprov.livejournal.com]

If it isn't region 1, you can probably change the region code on your DVD software to accomodate it. But I'm guessing that it is region 1, and has a press flaw. Hopefully you can exchange it for one that works, though you may not be able to -- we had this problem with the original DVD of Sneakers, and the entire run had a flaw that prevented them from being played on computer DVD players. A quick Google search doesn't turn up anything like that for Flickering Lights, so you may just have a bad copy.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

it didn't seem to be working on the real DVD player either, but that may have been user error--it's all set up funny, and I haven't tried it with a DVD that I know works, so I may be doing the wrong stuff there. If it runs on a real DVD player, I'm good with it--better than the other way around, really.