tell me the positives!
#91
Re: tell me the positives!
Weren't many that had hdmi out, which just makes life a little easier...still can't complain for the money.
#92
Re: tell me the positives!
It won't work here and like we've said, you can get a player for peanuts and hack it to be regionless.
#94
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Re: tell me the positives!
but how do you hack it...?
can't say technology is one of my strong points!
can't say technology is one of my strong points!
#95
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Re: tell me the positives!
You enter a code with the remote. The codes can be found on the internet.
#98
Re: tell me the positives!
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss...20dvd%20player
#99
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Re: tell me the positives!
Or just buy one from Amazon that is already Region Free.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss...20dvd%20player
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss...20dvd%20player
#101
Re: tell me the positives!
Stick the DVD player you're interested in into the site to see if there's a hack. Sony tend not to be hackable, others more so.
Some require a firmware hack, where you burn a CD that you download and run that in the player, which is a little risky. Best ones are the remote control hacks with a number or button sequence.
#102
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Re: tell me the positives!
Positives... I think mine are going to be quite location-specific, but I'll try:
- I prefer the weather here to the UK weather. Sure, it's stupid hot 3-4 months of the year and you're largely stuck inside, but at least whilst you're housebound it's still blue outside, so looks cheery. And walking 100 yds from the car to the supermarket in the mad heat is still easier than doing it in the pouring rain.
- we have a huge house, with a big yard, and a pool. Shallow, moi? But I like the sense of space this gives us, with the high ceilings and large rooms, and the way the yard is set up for entertaining and outside living (we have an outdoor grill and kitchen on mains gas).
- my kids are, to my surprise, having an extended childhood compared to my UK friends with same-age kids (currently 13 and 9). Their 13, nearly 14 yr olds are proto-adults, on their 3rd or 4th boyfriend/ girlfriend, and worrying about their social media image. My son was openly shocked the other day when it came up in conversation that I had my first kiss aged 13 - here, dating doesn't seem to start until 15 or 16 at least. He hasn't bothered doing things like setting up a Facebook page as it's not relevant for his social circle, and his friends are only just starting to get their own phones. This is the exact opposite of how I thought it would be before we moved, when I slightly worried that my kids wouldn't appear 'street' enough to be cool.
- assuming we stay here long enough, the kids can become dual US/UK citizens and will then have the entire Western World as their playground for living and working for their whole lives. If they're lucky, the US will even fix the citizen tax thing. Not holding my breath, mind.
- everything here is convenient and easy. Stores are open all the time, and there's always somewhere to park. Coming from Switzerland before we moved here, this is a BIG deal, as their shopping hours are like pre-1950s Britain, with less car parks and narrower roads.
- everyone is astonishingly friendly and cheerful, all the time. This is very pleasant to be around for casual interactions. And on the odd occasion it gets tiresome, we've made some excellent European friends with whom we can get drunk and be more acerbic.
- I like being the novelty foreigner. People collect me like a pet, which is amusing, and some of them are genuinely keen to get to know someone 'different' and learn more about other types of people out in the world. I've been 'that English lady' since 2008, in Switzerland, and here, and I like the easy identity tag. I like that I can be charmingly eccentric, and largely get away with anything (I am, for example, the only adult woman - adult, in fact - in my neighborhood who rides a microscooter to the mailbox).
- this one's very Phoenix-specific, but everywhere's so clean. It's a new city so hasn't had time to get grimy, and the dry climate means you don't get any moss and weeds growing everywhere like motorway embankments. Instead, they make great use of coloured and printed concretes, and gravels, and do fantastic patterns and shapes in the public areas. It's like living in a future Metropolis city.
It's funny - I still miss Switzerland at times, but I don't miss the UK at all, apart from family. We went back in the summer for two weeks, and I was delighted to come 'home' again.
- I prefer the weather here to the UK weather. Sure, it's stupid hot 3-4 months of the year and you're largely stuck inside, but at least whilst you're housebound it's still blue outside, so looks cheery. And walking 100 yds from the car to the supermarket in the mad heat is still easier than doing it in the pouring rain.
- we have a huge house, with a big yard, and a pool. Shallow, moi? But I like the sense of space this gives us, with the high ceilings and large rooms, and the way the yard is set up for entertaining and outside living (we have an outdoor grill and kitchen on mains gas).
- my kids are, to my surprise, having an extended childhood compared to my UK friends with same-age kids (currently 13 and 9). Their 13, nearly 14 yr olds are proto-adults, on their 3rd or 4th boyfriend/ girlfriend, and worrying about their social media image. My son was openly shocked the other day when it came up in conversation that I had my first kiss aged 13 - here, dating doesn't seem to start until 15 or 16 at least. He hasn't bothered doing things like setting up a Facebook page as it's not relevant for his social circle, and his friends are only just starting to get their own phones. This is the exact opposite of how I thought it would be before we moved, when I slightly worried that my kids wouldn't appear 'street' enough to be cool.
- assuming we stay here long enough, the kids can become dual US/UK citizens and will then have the entire Western World as their playground for living and working for their whole lives. If they're lucky, the US will even fix the citizen tax thing. Not holding my breath, mind.
- everything here is convenient and easy. Stores are open all the time, and there's always somewhere to park. Coming from Switzerland before we moved here, this is a BIG deal, as their shopping hours are like pre-1950s Britain, with less car parks and narrower roads.
- everyone is astonishingly friendly and cheerful, all the time. This is very pleasant to be around for casual interactions. And on the odd occasion it gets tiresome, we've made some excellent European friends with whom we can get drunk and be more acerbic.
- I like being the novelty foreigner. People collect me like a pet, which is amusing, and some of them are genuinely keen to get to know someone 'different' and learn more about other types of people out in the world. I've been 'that English lady' since 2008, in Switzerland, and here, and I like the easy identity tag. I like that I can be charmingly eccentric, and largely get away with anything (I am, for example, the only adult woman - adult, in fact - in my neighborhood who rides a microscooter to the mailbox).
- this one's very Phoenix-specific, but everywhere's so clean. It's a new city so hasn't had time to get grimy, and the dry climate means you don't get any moss and weeds growing everywhere like motorway embankments. Instead, they make great use of coloured and printed concretes, and gravels, and do fantastic patterns and shapes in the public areas. It's like living in a future Metropolis city.
It's funny - I still miss Switzerland at times, but I don't miss the UK at all, apart from family. We went back in the summer for two weeks, and I was delighted to come 'home' again.
#103
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Re: tell me the positives!
Wow no extended childhood where we are. It's designer labels, getting in the right clique at school, social media and sexy clothing and talk from about age 11.