The Retirement Thread

[classic33]

I think my last TV had a wireless, I'm all most sure it did...............or was that the record player

Rediffusion telly?

 

[Dave7]

I think my last TV had a wireless, I'm all most sure it did...............or was that the record player

Was it electric or wind up ?

 

[numbnuts]

Was it electric or wind up ?

Come to think of it, it would have to be a wind up as we never had electric, we had running water.......when it rained

 

[ColinJ]

I did without TV for almost the entire time that I was a student.

My TV set went wonky about a week after I started so I took it to bits and fixed it. The fault had damaged the main circuit board but I managed to bodge it back to life with bits of wire to connect up where printed circuit tracks had burned away.

The set failed again after another few weeks. By then I was studying some complex electronic engineering subjects which took a lot to get my head around and I couldn't really concentrate on the work when the TV was on so I decided to scrap it. I bought a good FM radio tuner after that and used to have the radio on in the background while I worked.

 

[welsh dragon]

Because of where we live, we can't get the ordinary channels. We have to have either Freesat or freeview and as we had a satellite dish we went for Freesat.

 

[ColinJ]

Because of where we live, we can't get the ordinary channels. We have to have either Freesat or freeview and as we had a satellite dish we went for Freesat.

I really like my Humax Freesat box. I got one with a huge HDD so I can store a big library of TV shows for future viewing.

I used to have 2 cables from the dish so I could record or record/watch 2 channels at once. Unfortunately, this happened...

Now I can only record/watch one channel at a time.

I could fix that in 5 minutes if (1) I had a ladder and (2) I had a head for heights!

I'll have to borrow a ladder and get a braver pal to fix it for me...

 

[welsh dragon]

I really like my Humax Freesat box. I got one with a huge HDD so I can store a big library of TV shows for future viewing.

I used to have 2 cables from the dish so I could record or record/watch 2 channels at once. Unfortunately, this happened...

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Now I can only record/watch one channel at a time.

I could fix that in 5 minutes if (1) I had a ladder and (2) I had a head for heights!

I'll have to borrow a ladder and get a braver pal to fix it for me...

That's what I have as we.

 

[classic33]

That's what I have as we.

A wire loose?

 

[ColinJ]

That's what I have as we.

I promise I will drop the subject after this, but...

Just in case you hadn't picked up on the fact the Humax box is recording what you are watching even if you don't tell it to - er, it does that!

It means that you can pause a programme without having to start recording it and you don't have to wait for a recording to finish before you start watching it. You can also rewind live programmes if you didn't quite catch what someone said or want to watch a part again. I find that really useful when watching subtitled programmes when I don't catch some of the subtitles.

Pause is really handy (even if you don't bother skipping the ads) because you can use it if the phone rings, or someone calls round unexpectedly. Just carry on watching later when the interruption is finished.

 

[PaulSB]

I haven't got a TV........

It's beginning to sound like a very wise move.........I didn't know it was so complicated.

All I do is walk into the front room, sit down, look at the TV....................and watch whatever Mrs P has decided on. Keeps life simple and avoids conflict.

 

[ColinJ]

Oh, but don't make the mistake of changing channels mid-pause - it throws away the buffer contents and starts again on the new channel... I have made that mistake a couple of times!

 

[ColinJ]

All I do is walk into the front room, sit down, look at the TV....................and watch whatever Mrs P has decided on.

I can't stand having other people's TV viewing choices inflicted on me. If watching with other people, we have a discussion on what to watch and make a joint decision.

Keeps life simple and avoids conflict.

Being able to do that is probably why you are married and I am single!

 

[PaulSB]

Good evening. The weather has been glorious. Mrs P's birthday tomorrow so all the family home today. I have:

• Ironed
• Made bed
• Put ironing away
• Prepared lunch
• Made gooseberry crumble
• Made birthday cake
• Cooked and served lunch
• Cleared everything up
• Joined family outside and been granddad
• Played croquet at cricket club
• Served cake and tea
• Tidied up
• Emptied dishwasher

Mrs P is happy. I have sat down with a large whisky 🥃

I'm nackered........time to watch some adverts, only thing worth watching these days.

 

[ColinJ]

Good evening. The weather has been glorious. Mrs P's birthday tomorrow so all the family home today. I have:

• Ironed
• Made bed
• Put ironing away
• Prepared lunch
• Made gooseberry crumble
• Made birthday cake
• Cooked and served lunch
• Cleared everything up
• Joined family outside and been granddad
• Played croquet at cricket club
• Served cake and tea
• Tidied up
• Emptied dishwasher

Mrs P is happy. I have sat down with a large whisky 🥃

I'm nackered........time to watch some adverts, only thing worth watching these days.

And that's the other reason... I'm too lazy to do housework to virtually anybody else's standards!

 

[PaulSB]

I can't stand having other people's TV viewing choices inflicted on me. If watching with other people, we have a discussion on what to watch and make a joint decision.

Being able to do that is probably why you are married and I am single! View attachment 607826

I don't watch TV. It may be on but I rarely watch it so don't really care what choice is made. There are a few things I enjoy, Vigil at present, but I'm more likely to pick something from Netflix or YouTube.