Last weekend our DVD player broke. Now, it’s pretty old as far as DVD players go (I think it’s about seven years old, but maybe as much as ten years old). It’s worked well and done its job, so it wasn’t a total shock when it refused to work last week.

When I was younger, the purchase of anything electronic was almost an ordeal in our household. Dad is very picky, so when we needed something electronic he would do lots of shopping, price comparisons, feature comparisons, and so on. Sometimes it lasted up to a few months! But he has become quite fond of Sony products, so when he and Mom looked into buying a new Sony dvd player, it wasn’t even hard. There were only, like, two DVD players that they were interested in. So this week Mom stopped by Sears one day and picked up a new DVD player.

Today Dad sat down and started hooking up the new DVD player. He hadn’t gone far when he discovered that this DVD player is intended for high-definition televisions, and he would need to “jury rig” our old tube television to make the DVD player work. Mom and Dad were already planning to buy a new hi-def television with their stimulus checks later this summer. So we pushed the schedule up and went to Sears today to buy a new Sony television.

In less than a week, we have purchased a new DVD player and a television to go with the new DVD player. Now we are discussing replacing the VCR… I’m not sure if I want to know where this goes!

*but for what it’s worth, the television is fantastic!