Saturday, March 21, 2009
Shitty DVD Obama Gift Given To
Gordon Brown Unwatchable
Well, it turns out that the DVDs aren't compatible for playback on the UK DVD system. USA MacPaper:
British newspapers earlier this month made hay out of the supposedly unequal exchange of gifts between the two leaders during Brown's visit to Washington. Brown gave an ornamental pen holder with an indirect tie to the Oval Office desk — both items were made from the timber of sister ships — and a first-edition set of a seven-volume biography about Winston Churchill.
Obama responded with a DVD set featuring 25 classic American movies. "About as exciting as a pair of socks," declared The Daily Mail.
Now it turns out Brown can't play the discs because of region-specific limitations, The Daily Telegraph reports.
DVD players are coded to limit themselves to material meant for specific geographic areas. The United States and Canada are Region 1. Western and Central Europe are Region 2.
Classless, Tasteless, Insensitive, Rude Pbama
Prime Minister Brown got all prepared to watch some of the DVDs...but found out that not only was the gift tasteless, it was also useless. Telegraph:
...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.
[...]
A White House spokesman sniggered when I put the story to him and he was still looking into the matter when my deadline came last night.
By the way, when Obama's unlikely gift was disclosed, a reader emailed me to ask if Clueless was among the films. Funnily enough, it was not.
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H/T: Leather Penguin
Labels: Classless Pbama, Gordon Brown, Michelle Obama, Pickles Pbama
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