if you like __________, you might enjoy ___________.

[jfb]

robots ... Dannybot
Blake's 7 ... Blake's Junction 7
Broken Social Scene ... The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess

That last is a surreal, ironic portrait (think To Die For) of the sex-charged, fame-crazed society we know as Canada. BSS wrote the score, and there's also a fantasy sequence set to Josh Rouse's "Love Vibration." The other two are comedic shorts--you can watch one of them online, and a trailer for the other.

Comments

[bushmiller.livejournal.com]

Guys, guys, guys, stop living in the stone age (circa 1997).

There are EASY ways to do this now that don't involve hacking firmware on a DVD-R nor cracking open component DVD players to do so.

I got the Philips DVP642 over the summer and I generally love it. It was $80 (you can find them online for as cheap as $60), plays MP3, VideoCD, and PhotoCDs like most players do these days PLUS it plays DiVX- and XViD-encoded AVIs burned to regular CD-Rs and DVD-Rs PLUS it has an easy, non-invasive region-free "hack." I say "hack" cuz, really, the designers of the machine built it into the player (Philips is as dominant in Europe where there's a huge demand for Region 1 discs as Sony is in the US).

Buy the DVD Player, then do this:

1. Turn on the player.
2. Open the tray.
3. Press the following sequence on the remote: 7 8 9 OK 0
4. The number 0 will appear on the lower left side of your screen.

Now it's a "region 0" player. You can also go in and force it to translate PAL to NTSC, but mine did it automatically out of the box. Voila, you can make the player whatever region you want it to be. You can turn it into Region 1 or 2 or 0 or whatever at your whim, an unlimited number of times.

It's not been a perfect player -- if playing DiVXs for over three hours or so consecutively, I think it overheats or something and just freezes. It also doesn't have unlimited decoding possibilities, sometimes if the audio's not encoded in a way it understands you'll just get video. But the region-free hack works great... I've got all the League of Gentlemen DVDs I wanted which will never be available in the US and they all work great. And even if the thing breaks tomorrow, it's only $80!

One more thing, emma, email me your mailing address, I want to send you some DiVXes. :-)

--sean

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

Yay thanks.

Until we bought my current laptop (not quite 3 years ago) we had zero dvd capability in the house. And I just got a cell phone last month. We're moving into the 21st century kicking and screaming it seems. :-)