Obama's next gift to Gordon Brown: TV and DVD player

[jmowreader]

The faux outrage story arc is building even as we speak:

Week 1: President Obama gives PM Brown tacky gift of 25 classic American movies on DVD. Five thousand talking heads discuss and tweet how tacky the gift is and bemoan the fact that "Patton" wasn't on the list, and there were no Reagan or Schwarzenegger films.

Week 2: PM Brown attempts to play said tacky gift; it doesn't work in Brown's DVD player. Five thousand talking heads discuss and tweet how tacky it is he'd give A Foreign Head Of State a gift he can't use.

Week 3: President Obama buys, with his own money, a new TV and DVD player, and sends it to PM Brown. Five thousand talking heads discuss and tweet how terrible Obama's work to increase America's scandalous trade deficit with China is.

Week 4: PM Brown plays the 25 DVDs, doesn't like any of them. Conservative Outrage Factory adds third shift to meet demand.

I guess it beats talking about how Phil Gramm destroyed the economy.

[PBS Poll-435]

1. Check out this related link

On a tech blog.

Obama's gift to British PM useless

[treestar]

2. Why do the British have wrong DVD players?

They drive on he wrong side of the road, too. :rofl:

What's up with that? Why don't they join the real world? :rofl:

[Salviati]

5. I think that they play metric DVDs...

:P

[treestar]

6. And they jointed the EU, yet they don't use Euros!

They are deliberately contrary!

[Hippo_Tron]

10. Yea when I went to England, their DVD players only played these things

http://www.cdr.cz/picture_/16255/small

What's up with that?

[theoldman]

3. If you have the right DVD player you can play any DVD.

DVD players are build to operate in about 8 zones. Some players will only play DVD's produced in one zone. For some reason unknown to me the cheap ones will generally play more than one zone. The TV is another problem since they use a different format.

[Jackeens]

4. I'd imagine Downing St has a region-free DVD player - even I have one!!! n/t

[jmowreader]

7. If they didn't have one, they do now

Come on: if all else fails the Prime Minister could just call his US Ambassador and ask him to pick up a DVD player next time he's in the store, and mail it to him. (I assume they already have a multisystem TV--global leadership these days almost demands being able to watch foreign TV news.)

On a related note: considering that all televisions are made in China and they don't sync off powerline frequencies anymore, WHY ISN'T THERE ONE STANDARD FOR DIGITAL TELEVISION?

[chat_noir]

8. Brown has no technical people that know how to hack a DVD player?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dvd+player+hacks&aq=0&oq=DVD+player+hack

[marshall]

9. Please don't forget the converters and adapters!

Otherwise the US devices won't fit in UK plugs and the higher current will burn them out!

[Hippo_Tron]

11. Why do they even care about Gordon Brown, they're undoubtedly rooting for the Tories