Normally I'm fielding questions from fans, like "I'm 14, will I find true love?" or "John, how do you know so much about life and love?" or "Will Qtrax be available for Mac soon?" If it has to do with music, Macs, or love, usually I can answer it. But I guess I need to admit that I'm stumped when it comes to hooking up electronic equipment, so I'm coming to you, News Groper readers, for the answer. My other blogs that I am constantly abandoning and then rejuvenating are only read my obsessive girl fans, and they wouldn't know what Blu-Ray was anyway. 

So, I recently bought an HD DVD player because Best Buy was selling them all for really cheap, like they were almost giving them away. I bought a really nice one for only $1. How cool is that? But I'm having a problem. I got an advance copy of my newest DVD on Blu-Ray about a month ago (I had to pay extra), and it's not playing in my HD DVD player. What's happening?

I mean, I thought Blu-Ray was, by definition, high definition. I'm not a complete idiot when it comes to these things. I have my stuff hooked up right but the screen is not showing anything, and it keeps ejecting the disc. Did I get a faulty HD DVD player or are all these new John Mayer DVDs faulty? Help! Normally this is the kind of thing Jessica Simpson was good at, but she's not around anymore.