Need DVD player help for elderly person

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gsabc · #1 Post by **gsabc** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:01 am

... namely my soon-to-be 89-year-old mother. My sister is setting up a birthday party, and we want to get her a DVD player, and a bunch of DVD's of course. Does anyone have any suggestions on a player that's easy to use and has reasonably big lettering and buttons on both the remote and the player itself? I'll settle for good-sized writing on the remote. She doesn't need Blu-Ray, because she doesn't have an HD television.

I will probably go to Best Buy and Circuit City to look at what they have and maybe get some suggestions there. The DVD's will be easy, because we know her tastes. The British comedies on PBS, old and not-so-old sitcoms, the MGM musicals --- stuff like that. I just got a PBS video catalog, but I'm not sure if they'd show up soon enough if I ordered even now.

Thank ye kindly.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #2 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:35 am

Have you considered buying her a Disney DVD player? They are cheap and almost indestructible. We bought one for Emma's room about six years ago and it's still going strong.

The irony of course is that Emma knows how to work the expensive family DVD player better than I do.

Emma has a princess DVD player like this:

http://www.e-digital-electronics.com/pr ... s_id=82068

Here are some at overstock.com

http://www.overstockdealz.com/products.asp?id=DVD2000C

http://www.overstockdealz.com/products.asp?id=DVD2050C

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #3 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:37 am

If you look at the smaller remote, you can see how simple it is.

Bob Juch · #4 Post by **Bob Juch** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:29 pm

Get her one of these:

http://www.x-tremegeek.com/templates/se ... uctID=8701

themanintheseersuckersuit · #5 Post by **themanintheseersuckersuit** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 1:32 pm

http://www.dynamic-living.com/low_vision_aids.htm

This is a site with all kinds of stuff for dealing with impairments