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Sigh. In a case of the world's shortest hiatus, I'm popping back on to bleg for help. In an act of unspeakable stupidity, I bought my dad a DVD player for his birthday today. I didn't know what else to get for a man who has no interests and no hobbies. He'd seen The Departed on TV a few weeks ago and had mentioned several times how much he liked it so stupid me I thought Maybe he'd like to watch movies at home. So I bought him this stupid, very basic little $49 Sony DVD player and The Departed and No Country For Old Men which I thought he'd enjoy and of course the only sentiment expressed was mystification over why anyone would want to own a movie. I also gave him a Blockbuster Video card though he seemed to find the concept of renting movies fairly ridiculous as well. I just...whatever. I wish he'd start smoking again so I could just buy him a couple of goddamn cartons and be done with it LOL. LOL, two cartons of Marlboros would've cost more than the DVD player and the movies combined.
As if this isn't enough of a fuckup already, because my parents' apartment is some sort of vast, sucking black hole where Hope Goes To Die and Nothing Ever, Ever Works...every DVD is playing with English-language subtitles, even though I didn't select them on the DVD menu and even though it's not selected on the DVD player's setup. If I DO turn the DVD subtitles on(either via the DVD menu or the player), you see TWO sets of subtitles at the same time. The ones I can't turn off don't even look like DVD subtitles, they look like TV closed-captions, you know what I mean? But there are no captions when watching television only DVDs. My father's TV is a Sharp LCD, only about a year old. I checked the TV's setup menu and couldn't even select captions so they're not turned on and so I have no idea where these stupid captions are coming from. I said I'd take the DVD player back to the store if we couldn't figure it out (which we couldn't) and I just know it's not going to do it over there, it has something to do with the television and I don't know how to fix it. So if you know any way to fix this please help.
Whatever, while I'm here anyway I might as well talk about something interesting so ( SPN 5:03, Spoilers )
As if this isn't enough of a fuckup already, because my parents' apartment is some sort of vast, sucking black hole where Hope Goes To Die and Nothing Ever, Ever Works...every DVD is playing with English-language subtitles, even though I didn't select them on the DVD menu and even though it's not selected on the DVD player's setup. If I DO turn the DVD subtitles on(either via the DVD menu or the player), you see TWO sets of subtitles at the same time. The ones I can't turn off don't even look like DVD subtitles, they look like TV closed-captions, you know what I mean? But there are no captions when watching television only DVDs. My father's TV is a Sharp LCD, only about a year old. I checked the TV's setup menu and couldn't even select captions so they're not turned on and so I have no idea where these stupid captions are coming from. I said I'd take the DVD player back to the store if we couldn't figure it out (which we couldn't) and I just know it's not going to do it over there, it has something to do with the television and I don't know how to fix it. So if you know any way to fix this please help.
Whatever, while I'm here anyway I might as well talk about something interesting so ( SPN 5:03, Spoilers )