Cardiac
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SJ, have you got it set up yet?I bought one of those LCD TVs today, a 32" Toshiba.
I've read the manual but the set's still in it's box in the living room. I'm scared of it
Getting older, and new technology.
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Smokin Joe
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You missed post #30 Cardiac, I am up and running
Can't believe how much sharper the picture is compared to the old CRT.
darth vadar
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I wonder whether it is that as you get older you start to question things more.
Like "Why" ?
Occasionally when I can't sleep I end up watching that IT/gadget show programme (Click?) on the BBC News programme.
And some of the stuff they promote on there is just completely pointless - yet the presenters seem to be orgasmic about the whole thing.
"Yes, you must buy this. It only costs $500 and you might only ever use it once, but you must have one"
Pointless !!!!
Like "Why" ?
Occasionally when I can't sleep I end up watching that IT/gadget show programme (Click?) on the BBC News programme.
And some of the stuff they promote on there is just completely pointless - yet the presenters seem to be orgasmic about the whole thing.
"Yes, you must buy this. It only costs $500 and you might only ever use it once, but you must have one"
Pointless !!!!
Davidc
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When I had to replace the TV with a new LCD one there were 3 steps more than Speichers:
Plug in the aerial
Put the batteries in the remote
Press the big button in the middle of the remote when it asked if I wanted it to search for stations.
How did SJ & others get on in the days when you had to tune each station in using a little knob hidden behind a plastic panel, and then you had to work out which one was which as they appeared?
The technology has actually got much simpler to use! It does it all for you now.
Plug in the aerial
Put the batteries in the remote
Press the big button in the middle of the remote when it asked if I wanted it to search for stations.
How did SJ & others get on in the days when you had to tune each station in using a little knob hidden behind a plastic panel, and then you had to work out which one was which as they appeared?
The technology has actually got much simpler to use! It does it all for you now.
Well, there were only three possibilities to choose from. And BBC2 would be showing the testcard,so it wasn't hard to positively identify
Hilldodger
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Old saying "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today"
Old saying "Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off for ever"
Me and gadgets just don't go together .Just today i sent off an email to Virgin complaining about phone and web reception on my Balacberry curve .Cheapo on Virgin .We have Telly.Phone ,Broadband and mobile .
Well i had a grumble about it with my youngest 13 years old she is .She took it upstairs and came down a little later .Sorted it is now hooked up to the wifi .
I'll just get my coat .Hopeless case i am .
Well i had a grumble about it with my youngest 13 years old she is .She took it upstairs and came down a little later .Sorted it is now hooked up to the wifi .
I'll just get my coat .Hopeless case i am .
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Telly arrived 7:30am Thursday, the only instructions I read was how to assemble the stand, once it was on the stand I put it on the table in place of the old one switched it on and did what it told me and it was up and running in less than half an hour. Big improvement on our old 27 inch.
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Smokin Joe
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Fiddling with tuners was logical and easy for anyone mechanically minded, if you went too far one way you just turned the knob back the other way till you had a perfect picture. All gadgets basically worked like that prior to microchips.
The trouble with modern stuff is one button launches a whole series of operations, with little messages appearing on the screen every now and again asking you to press Yes or No to some option written in Geek Technobabble which you don't really understand. The fear is choosing the wrong option and setting off a sequence of events that you will never recover from, rather like a president accidently leaning on the nuclear button.
We all must have computer stories and mothers .My wife has a good one .I will be quick .We had a smashing family picture .Mother in law saw it .Said that would be nice to send to USA ,a relative it's already gone there ..How ? via the computer .How do you get a picture into a computer .With an attachment via the paper clip .How do you put a paperclip into the computer .Finally picture was so good we were going to use it as wallpaper .Thats another story .
Contrary to popular myth, that's how us youngies learn stuff a lot of the time, but perhaps less with the fear of messing it up. I remember as a kid that the tv still had dials to mess up colour, contrast and so on, it's not really fundamentally different from that. I agree with DavidC that some bits are easier now, some sets are much easier to tune and at least inputs are better labelled than arbitrary numbers. People can understand on my tv that the input that says cable is for cable and so on, much better than input 5!
