I purchased the best DVD player EVER. It plays almost any format you throw at it. VCD? SVCD? Soooo last year. This baby plays DivX and XviD with no problem. The best part? Only $69.99 at K-mart. Yes, K-Mart.

Since I have all of the latest (and greatest) shows and movies, I wanted to be able to watch them without having to convert them to .mpg (which looks like crap). I read that this Philips DVDP-642 could do all of that, so I began my small town quest to find one. Wal-Mart and RadioShack had none (nor did the salesmen know what DivX meant…sheesh!). In a last ditch effort, I decided to go out of my way to the always disappointing Big K. The rest is history. I now watch burned CDs of shows that look better on CD than they did with DirecTV the first time around.

*dances the happy dance*