#demonic thing

The DVD player is demonic. 

Yesterday it worked when the technician fiddled with it before it went on to play the DVD.

Today I tried to put on a DVD to entertain myself. I pressed the Play button too many times to count. I turned it off, then on again. I took the DVD out and put it in. I struggled to make the thing work.

Twice, I got to the playback menu. It offered me the selection of Play, scene selection or setup. Twice I tried to play it and twice it didn't work. I begged it to work. I pressed play and the screen went blank. 

This went on for almost two hours before I gave up. Two hours lost, that I could have spent watching the movie.