Wednesday, 15 October 2025

The Devil Inside the DVD Player.

I’m drowning in troubles at the moment. Several of them involve the computer, and several of the several manifest inside the DVD player. It’s developed a bad case of Arkwright’s Till, you see, which term will only be recognised by those who watched the old British sitcom Open All Hours avidly (and with repeats) as I did. Briefly, what happens is this:

You open the tray with the regulation button and attempt to place the DVD into it. Sometimes the mechanism stays compliant and allows you to close it with the same button, but sometimes it has a little brainstorm and tries to drag your hand into the casing – presumably with the intention of enjoying a free meal – before you’ve let go of the disc. It can be quite alarming until you’re used to it, which I’m not.

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