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#1148368 - 03/19/09 11:17 PM
Those DVD's that BO thought was a good gift!
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 Gordon Brown is frustrated by 'Psycho' in No 10 Alas, when the PM settled down to begin watching them the other night, he found there was a problem. The films only worked in DVD players made in North America and the words "wrong region" came up on his screen. Although he mournfully had to put the popcorn away, he is unlikely to jeopardise the special relationship – or "special partnership", as we are now supposed to call it – by registering a complaint. --snip-- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopi...o-in-No-10.html Cue the new Obama Administration Theme Song!
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#1148389 - 03/20/09 02:09 AM
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classic!
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#1148398 - 03/20/09 03:02 AM
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Gordon Brown's sight is not good either, is it?
A real class act!
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#1148399 - 03/20/09 03:37 AM
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I thought this was the theme song for Obama.
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#1148633 - 03/20/09 02:45 PM
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Why are you congratulating me for having a complete moron for a President?  Poor Bimmer...thinks George Dubya is still President 
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#1148671 - 03/20/09 03:03 PM
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I wonder if How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days was among the DVDs given. Or Teen Witch??
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#1148672 - 03/20/09 03:03 PM
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Why are you congratulating me for having a complete moron for a President? Poor Bimmer...thinks George Dubya is still President Poor IT Guy and his Ilk can't accept the fact that "The One", without a teleprompter, is a bigger Mental Midget that Bush ever was!
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#1148678 - 03/20/09 03:07 PM
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Why are you congratulating me for having a complete moron for a President? Poor Bimmer...thinks George Dubya is still President Yes, you have to give him credit, Obama is setting new records in his pace to screw up this country.
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#1148681 - 03/20/09 03:08 PM
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what is in the coffee we are drinking this morning?
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#1148683 - 03/20/09 03:09 PM
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^^^^^^
that explains it!
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#1148691 - 03/20/09 03:20 PM
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Why are you congratulating me for having a complete moron for a President? Oh, no. I'm congratulating you for having graduated from Shemp's Skool of Grammer. As far as the underlying story goes, it's a little puzzling to me. Let me explain why... First, if President Obama actually gave Gordon Brown DVDs in NTSC format, that's just, well, careless, stupid, or silly (take your pick.) The puzzling part is this, if you attempt to play an NTSC DVD in a PAL DVD player, you don't get 'wrong region' as an error message. It usually just won't load. The formats are incompatible.
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#1148697 - 03/20/09 03:27 PM
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It usually just won't load. The formats are incompatible. I'm a little puzzled by this underlying explanation. if the format is incompatible, it will never load. yet, you say it usually won't load.
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#1148702 - 03/20/09 03:31 PM
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:places popcorn in the magneto:
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#1148704 - 03/20/09 03:34 PM
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Why are you congratulating me for having a complete moron for a President? Oh, no. I'm congratulating you for having graduated from Shemp's Skool of Grammer. As far as the underlying story goes, it's a little puzzling to me. Let me explain why... First, if President Obama actually gave Gordon Brown DVDs in NTSC format, that's just, well, careless, stupid, or silly (take your pick.) The puzzling part is this, if you attempt to play an NTSC DVD in a PAL DVD player, you don't get 'wrong region' as an error message. It usually just won't load. The formats are incompatible. Understood. But if you took a Region 1 (US) DVD and put it in a DVD player that can only play Region 2 (UK) DVD's, you will get the "Wrong Region" error message!
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#1148710 - 03/20/09 03:42 PM
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I'm sure the ultra-right Telegraph crafted this entire incident and the videos are playing just fine...
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#1148731 - 03/20/09 03:55 PM
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Understood. But if you took a Region 1 (US) DVD and put it in a DVD player that can only play Region 2 (UK) DVD's, you will get the "Wrong Region" error message!
That is true only if the two players (sorry, if the dvd and the player) are of the same format. An NTSC DVD coded for Region 1, if played in an NTSC DVD player configured for Region 2 will display "Wrong Region". However, format trumps region. The UK is on the PAL standard. The US is on NTSC.
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#1148756 - 03/20/09 04:15 PM
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It usually just won't load. The formats are incompatible. I'm a little puzzled by this underlying explanation. if the format is incompatible, it will never load. yet, you say it usually won't load. Different machines handle the incompatibility in different ways.
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#1148767 - 03/20/09 04:24 PM
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First, if President Obama actually gave Gordon Brown DVDs in NTSC format, that's just, well, careless, stupid, or silly (take your pick.) Good point - after all, we all know that nothing about this gift was careless, stupid, or silly.
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#1148786 - 03/20/09 04:35 PM
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Understood. But if you took a Region 1 (US) DVD and put it in a DVD player that can only play Region 2 (UK) DVD's, you will get the "Wrong Region" error message!
That is true only if the two players (sorry, if the dvd and the player) are of the same format. An NTSC DVD coded for Region 1, if played in an NTSC DVD player configured for Region 2 will display "Wrong Region". However, format trumps region. The UK is on the PAL standard. The US is on NTSC. Yea, I guess it just not possible that PM Brown has one of those New Fangled DVD players that can play NTSC and PAL video formats! 
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