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woohoo i just bought a new dvd player. this will scale up nicely when i run across a HD TV, but most importantly is the onboard PAL playback, which means, uhh, i can spend $120 for Buffy and Angel DVDs now instead of $40 in 5 months and a year. sounds great, huh? Although i jut realized how stupid i am and missed buffy season 4 repostathon on the newsgroups for the first 7 episodes. Sigh.

Also, wtf. Every boxed set of quality 45 minute shows in the universe costs like $80-$120 at least here. Star trek, farscape, xfiles, sopranos, etc. These discs cost roughly 60-80 pounds when ordered from england. Which is comparable, especially taking into consideration that things are generally more expensive on the other side of the blue. sometimes, it's even less, for instance, the godfather box set is 30 pounds, compared to $80. wow, that blows my mind. But a more normal comparision is say farscape season 1. $130 vs. 90L. Which makes UK a little more pricey, but not unreasonably so.

But then there is Buffy and Angel, which inexplicable (but i'm not complaining) street here for around $40 but however sell in the UK for 70-80 pounds. It makes zero sense and it seems to be designed specifically to hurt me.

the downside to the new player is that if i play an anamorphic ws transfer, it'll stretch the picture vertically. that becomes a non-issue with the inevitable switch to a widescreen tv.

and that's enough of tonights HOLY SHIT Sam and Carla just kissed. I'm so very disturbed. Anyway, as i was saying, that's enough of tonight's "god i'm a loser", i'm going to go watch buffy and cry and dream about my Angel DVDs or something.

oh boy, 11pm and time for bed. If i'm a lucky boy, newbury comics will have the pulseprogramming disc tomorrow. I'm not too hopeful though. I'll be happy if they at least got the merge comp in.