The Tale of Two TVs

Two years ago, Mama Lai and Papa Lai made what they considered a luxury purchase for themselves:  a 42-inch flat panel television.  They were so excited for the big ticket item, they didn't realize the television came with a blu-ray player and recently unearthed it, two years later, in a cabinet. With all three ducklings out the house, Mama Lai was both very proud and excited to figure out, on her own, how to connect the blu-ray player to their TV.

But Mama Lai found out her "stupid" blu-ray player couldn't play DVDs and consequently could no watch her favorite Chinese soap dramas and TV shows.  Not knowing that she could connect more than one machine to her TV, and not to be undone, she came up with her own solution to this problem:

"So...we moved [Duckie's] big flat screen television out of storage and cleared a place in front of the fireplace.  Then we hooked up our DVD player to Duckie's TV."

So now that Mama Lai and Papa Lai have two forty-two inch televisions squeezed into their family room  and they can watch blu-ray movies and television shows on one, and DVDs on the other, they still are confronted with this problem:

"Why can't Duckie's TV play DVDs in color?"