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Meryl:
CRISIS!

I need to find a VHS version of Brokeback Mountain so we can watch it at the Pilgrimage.  The TV's at the Banff Boundary Lodge will only play videotapes, and they tell me there's no way to hook up a DVD player.

Amazon and other sites I've looked at have no availability for VHS, just for DVD's.

Can anyone help?  I didn't check E-Bay (it daunts me).  Anyone?    :P

southendmd:
Eric confirms that there were no VHS made of BBM.  (Nothin' on ebay.)

He suggested someone copy the DVD onto VHS.  Anyone have the capability to do that?

Otherwise, we may have to watch it on a teeny tiny portable player screen.

Jeff Wrangler:
Anybody going to be be bringing a laptop with the capability of playing the DVD?

That's still an awfully small screen, but it's a little larger than the portable DVD players I've seen.

Meryl:
Thanks, buds.

The laptop idea is possible, as is the portable player.  But I'll see if I can find some outfit in NYC that can make the transfer from DVD to VHS.

We knew we'd be roughing it in the mountains, but who knew they'd have no DVD players?  ;)

moremojo:
I really regret that a commercial VHS transfer of the film has not been made. There is a friend of mine, who has severe panic disorder and rarely leaves his home, who I would really like to see the film, but has no cable or DVD player (though he does have a VHS player). I invited him to accompany me to a theatrical screening in 2006, but, although he initially agreed, eventually begged off because he felt unwell (I suspect anxiety was a factor). My taking my sister's DVD player and my copy of the DVD to my friend's home would be in the realm of possibility, but he is a heavy chain-smoker, and I feel I cannot comfortably visit with him there for more than fifteen minutes or so (the same issue complicates my option of inviting him to my place)--so you can see the dilemma here.

I figure his best bet of eventually seeing the film is catching it on cable while visiting his mother (who has it, but lives clear on the other side of the state) at some future time. In the meantime, I just keep stressing to him what a profound and potentially life-changing work of art it really is, and reiterating my hope that he experiences it someday.

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