#the most evil part is my desktop actually has a built in disc drive but it's region lock to the US. war and hate on planet earth.

[annabelle--cane]

rifle through DVD box. find old being human s2 DVDs. excavate old dual region DVD player and tv monitor. spend several minutes de-cobwebbing them. find the remotes. de-cobweb remotes. replace batteries in remotes. plug in and hook up DVD player and monitor. put in first DVD. it works! score! problem: you don't know how you'll transfer the cenSAA special features to your computer if these turn out to be the right DVDs, but that's a future step. the menu screen plays on the tv, you prepare to let it loop a few times. the music is Loud. there's someone else in the next room and you cannot in good conscience have sound playing at this volume. you try to turn it down with the tv remote. tv remote does not work. DVD remote works but doesn't have a volume button. the little buttons on the monitor itself do not control the volume. monitor refuses to turn off. turn off DVD player in a panic.

reassess situation. inspect DVD player, it has an HDMI port. okay. workable, your desktop has an HDMI port, too, and if you connect it there then you can transfer the special features right away. go out in 20 degree F weather to get your desktop out of the car where you left it after coming home from school because it was raining and you didn't want to get it wet. lug desktop inside. disconnect monitor. acquire HDMI cable. plug in desktop. connect DVD player to desktop with HDMI cable. desktop registers Nothing. do spin attacks and kill things. spend twenty minutes poking at your desktop to see if you can make it work. fail.

reassess situation. inspect DVD player, it has a USB port. okay. workable, you have a USB to USB C cable, and your laptop has a USB C port. unplug and disconnect desktop. get out laptop. connect DVD player to laptop. laptop registers Nothing. begin bleeding from the eyes and ears and nose and mouth. spend twenty minutes poking at your laptop to see if you can make it work. fail.

reassess situation. inspect monitor, it has an HDMI port. okay. not workable exactly, but you can at least perform an experiment to see if this old DVD player is simply incompatible with newer technology for some reason or if all its other ways of connecting are janked and it can only work via VIVO. sit in your little ring of scattered devices and cables and wireless add-ons for several minutes. decide actually you would rather explode into a shower of viscera than spend any more time disconnecting and reconnecting monitors. explode into a shower of viscera.