I am a sucker for a good deal . . . or for what appears to be a good deal.Last week we took a family trip to a store named "Deals too good to miss". Seriously, that's it's name. It's really a glorified dollar store but it also sells things that cost more than a dollar.
We found lots of bargains but the best (or so we thought at the time) were some 50 cent dvds of old tv shows. Imagine our joy and glee when we came across a 3 episode dvd of the Dick Van Dyke show! We love the Dick Van Dyke show and we like that we can watch only an episode or two and share some quick laughs instead of plopping down for a 2 hour long movie.
We use our computer to watch dvds and this 50 cent job our computer did NOT like. It wouldn't recognize it, it froze up on us, programs were not responding, etc. We did finally get the crazy dvd to play and watched the first 2 episodes. So far so good. We attempted to pop the dvd in to watch the 3rd episode a few nights ago. The computer behaved even stranger this time! And the dvd refused to play.
Into the trash can went our dvd, and now our computer is still behaving strangely and SLOWLY. I'm going to run all the updates today and do a scan disk, anyone have any other suggestions?!?
Please learn from our mistake and don't ever buy a dvd which costs 50 cents!
5 comments:
my favorite speeder-upper is to defrag the hard drive. it takes forever but is ususally worth it! We have a couple of those el cheapo DVD's but we haven't had trouble in our DVD player. Thanks for the hint - we won't watch them on the computer now!!!
Alicia,
Did you try watching them on a regular T.V? We have that same store down here and I was just thinking I wanted to check it out.
Hey Alicia - we have quite a few $1.00 dvd's - old cartoons, andy griffith, the little princess, the three stooges, to name a few - we've never had any trouble with them using a DVD player w/ TV, but I don't know that we've ever tried to watch one on computer. Hope you get it all worked out - computers are wonderful when they are working, but can be such a headache when they're not!!
i am sorry alicia... i grew up watching those good old shows. i don't have any suggestions... "i know nuthing, NUTHING." was that st shutlz that said that?
love you,
janelle
alicia -
let me clarify - TROY is a scrabble nerd - i play with him because i love him - he wins 400 to 100 usually...oh well it makes him happy :)
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