Daniel

What kind of disc is it on, and have you tried it in another DVD player? Some players don't like some brands of disc. Some players don't like some formats of disc. You'll get most luck from a good quality DVD-R disc, fewer machines support DVD+R and I'd be surprised if you got (m)any DVD-RW or +RW discs to play on older players. You could use the program DVD Shrink to duplicate your original disc and burn another copy to a good quality, good brand DVD-R and see if your old player is more interested in that. Be careful of copyright ownership if you are duplicating discs though.

Updated after a cancelled request, and also have to add Pinnacle Systems TV tuner PCI card I'm going to bin/recycle what isn't claimed by Wednesday morning.

Following Carl H's lead, I've had a bit of a clear out. I'm not quite so generous as Carl so won't stretch to free postage, but if you can send me a cheque to cover whatever the stamps cost for your choice from the stuff below, you are welcome to it. I'd welcome extra donations too, but all I'd ask is for the postage to be covered. It's all of low or no value, certainly to me, and I imagine a fair bit of it will go unwanted. Netgear 802.11b Wireless PCMCIA card (MA401) Netgear Wireless PCI adapter MA301 (to convert MA401 from PCMCIA card to PCI card) USRobotics Sportster 33600 Winmodem PC DFV (ISA card) Hayes Accura 336 Message Modem (external, connect via serial cable (I have the power supply but not a serial cable)) Cheap "Cheetah" PS/2 optical wheel mouse Dell OEM AGP graphics card (imagine it is AGP 1x, it is dated 1998) IEEE1394/"Firewire"/"iLink" PCI card giving 3 external and 1 internal 6-pin IEEE1394 connections Creative Labs AWE sound card (ISA card) Motorola M3588 BTcellnet mobile phone, battery and charger (no idea if it works, only have T-Mobile SIMs to test) Two cheap USB webcams Siemens S45 mobile phone (no charger, works but some dead pixels) - probably the most usable mobile I ever had 80mm case fan with four pin power passthrough Celeron 633 (I think), heatsink and fan BT Synergy 2100 triple handset DECT phone system (90% sure the base works fine - handsets and chargers certainly do) ACP-7X Nokia charger Siemens S55 charger Cable & Wireless DECT phone+base (not "linked" but you can link them) Single IEE1394 port on plate with header to connect to motherboard I also have an AMD Athlon 850MHz processor with a good heatsink and twin fans on a Gigabyte GA-7ZM motherboard with onboard sound, a Pheonix Gamer AGP graphics card, PCI modem and PCI Netgear MA311 wireless card, 40x CD ROM, Creative 12x CD-RW and 256MB of PC133 RAM. It needs just a hard drive, but obviously weighs a lot and has a small value, so say £50 ono delivered (by overnight Citylink, usually about £14) There's also an emachines 320 Celeron 900MHz PC without a hard drive or any optical drives though I've not looked inside so I'm not certain everything is still inside it - if you want that and the other tower you can have it for whatever extra it costs to ship - unless you can collect them from Middlesex.

told you!

If you have a John Lewis department store near you they are always worth a go. We buy a lot of stuff there, the service is second to none but they will also match any other shop's price. When we bought our DVD recorder they were £50 cheaper than any other shop we'd seen (and £30 cheaper than websites), and when we bought the TV they were the same price as most other shops but include a 5 year warranty. Best of all, about a week and a half after we bought the TV, I read on an AV forum that a shop in Bolton were selling the same model for £250 less - and John Lewis refunded the difference after a quick phone call, still giving the free 5 year guarantee. I buy virtually everything online, but still prefer JL for consumer electronics.

Colin has just emailed some photos over for me to upload to his website, I have just added them on - some sprint car and midget photos from Western Springs and some Stock Car photos fro opening night of Grand Prix at Rotorura. See them at http://www.stoxphotos.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=21

Another vote for Panasonic recorders and DVD-RAM use here. I record a bit from TV onto DVD-RAM, trim out the adverts, then put the disc into my PC (LG recorders read/write DVD-RAM as well as every other format, £20-25) and copy to DVD-R for archiving. We bought the recorder when built in hard drives weren't practical but it's the same as the £119 (which can additionally record to -RW discs) model you can buy now (but £40 extra will get you an internal Freeview decoder or £100 more a hard drive) and would like a hard drive recorder but having recently invested in a big LCD TV, it'll have to wait. It's not very often that you see three people agreeing on DVD formats or brands of recorder. DVD-RAM is not likely to win the format war but I think it is the best so while everyone is agreeing I'll stick my oar in and say I've used Panasonic single sided RAM discs and Datawrite Titanium -Rs and never had a problem, and have used probably 200 for TV recordings and PC data backups without a single failiure. I use the TMPGEnc software (all three programs, for authoring DVDs, re-encoding video when required, and editing MPEGs) which a lot of people seem to use though there are probably better MPEG editing programs if you want to do much more than deleting adverts but the convertor and authoror seem great.

Rob, LER's DVD has a couple of other races on it as well - here's a copy of the back of the DVD case

*meek shuffle*

Stoxnet is not a trading post for pirated copies of copyrighted computer games. If you want to play BriSCA Heat and need to get your own copy of NASCAR Heat, buy one - don't ask for a copy on this website. A quick two minute search on Amazon.com and eBay.com shows genuine CDs of the PC version of the NASCAR Heat game from about £7.00 delivered. If you'd prefer an illegal copy, please click here.

Yep, send me your address and I'll post it today.

I have a stick of 512MB laptop memory, proper Crucial CT6464X335 stuff, but I went and ordered the wrong part and will send it to anyone it would be useful to - please use it and don't sell it on eBay. It is 512MB on an SO DIMM, 512MB of DDR PC2700 lovleyness. Look it up on the Crucial UK website. It's proper Crucial memory, I swear by it - it'll work for sure, the only thing wrong with it is me - I bought the wrong kind. Use the Crucial website to check it's the right stuff for your laptop. It's good for a Samsung X15+, Toshiba Satellite A60 Pro, Satellite A40, Satellite L10, Evesham Voyager 3000, Mitac 8355, and HP/Compaq NX9010 among dozens and dozens of others. All I ask is for you to cover the postage costs.

One left... I'm putting the bins out before I go to bed so be quick if you want it!

The paper recycling bin men come here on Tuesdays, if you'd like to lighten their load by the weight of a Sheffield programme from the British Championship meeting, send me a PM with your name and address. I have four.

Gone at 11.18pm, I reckon someone wanted the puzzle answers

Bought at Northampton this afternoon, Stoxworld #256 free to good home, complete with last Friday's "Difficult" Sodoku (#53) from the Guardian. First to PM me with their address - free to good home.

Sorry folks, it went into the post at about 7pm

PM me with your name and address if you want the programme from last weekend, packaged complete with Friday's Guardian's Sudoku puzzle that I finally finished on the way home on Sunday

OK, just the September SCM now Centre A3 colour poster is of 390 and 391

Free to good home - just cover the postage.

Safeway/Morrisons had one for £15 last weekend.

Halfords in Ruislip don't

I'm not sure if they know how Royal Mail works?

Sorry, it went by PM just 4 mins before your message Originally offered on Saturday night when I got home... sorry!

Free to good home before the paper recycling bin gets it: Northampton F1/F2/Ministox meeting programme Sat 17th April 2004