Activities of Saturday, October 11, 2014 How to buy a DVD player

After the interview, we walked over to Electronic City to check for a universal DVD player- we need a multi-region player--one that will play DVDs from US and from the other regions. Sounds simple, right? We’ve already looked at other locations and were getting nowhere.  We asked at Panasonic and Polytron stations (recall that here they separate things by brand and not type of item). They had nothing and directed us to Samsung. We asked at Samsung and they directed us to Philips. We asked the Philips guy (who didn’t speak much English (the Samsung guy did and stayed to help)). The Philips guy pointed to a stack of DVD players and said this one. We picked one up off the pile and they said no. He has to unlock it. So we went with them to pay. First. We stopped at a computer and were entered into the system.  Next, the two guys walked us to the cashier. The Samsung guy left and we paid the cashier. We could save 20% if we paid cash or used our local bank debit card (for once we had the right card). Once I gave her the card, we had to move to the next station and ran the card and entered our 6 digit PIN. The invoice printed so we went back to station 1, got the invoice stamped and handed it to the Philips guy. He took us to the back of the store to the Take Away or Home Delivery stand. He pointed to some seats and we sat. He handed the invoice to the counter guy. He got a DVD player from the back, put it into a bag, called us over and handed it to us. The Philips guy then came running up and took the box and bag. First thing, stamp the invoice we received the goods. Then, open the box and hook it up to a TV. He also stamped the warranty card.  He then did his thing and adjusted the regional format to 0 (all regions). He played a DVD to demonstrate that it worked. Next everything was repacked and he gave us the DVD player. We walked back to the apartment and Brad ran the DVD upstairs while I waited in the lobby.

Next, we walked over to Pacific Place mall for dinner. We ate at an Asian place and then went to Best Denki for another HDMI cable for the DVD player. We looked at printers (they didn’t have the model we wanted). We then headed to the stationery store in the basement where we bought some pens, highlighters, and other stuff. We found they had THREE Wi-Fi range extenders and will research them tomorrow. Then home to the apartment, hooked up the DVD player and watched one of the DVDs we’d air shipped while starting to draft some belated updates to the blog.