Abruptly, last week our Sky reception stopped while SWMBO was in the lounge watching news on Al Jazeera.
Sky technician came, saw and delivered the verdict - the TV was the culprit! It's one we'd brought back from Al Ain so it is only 3 or 4 years old.
Said technician swapped the A.R.T. room TV (bought while we were in Stratford, so a year or two older) and we were back in business Sky wise.
The 'new' A.R.T. room TV from the lounge is fine but the connection to my stereo wasn't. Appears it failed like the Sky connection.
Yikes!! Inconceivable! Calamity! Disaster!
So I had to buy an 'optical digital audio out' cable (and a new home theatre sound system from Harvey Norman).
Seems in the last few years TVs are now using this optical bizzo and so, gggrrrrr, if I want to blast out Rage Against The Machine live in my A.R.T....
I was given a new smart phone by a student at school (she'd won it and it was surplus to requirements, with the helpful suggestion planted by a rather wonderful colleague - student passed the phone to me).
It's a brand new phone so a better prospect than Jade's Sony Xperia.
It needed a cover so I got in the Purdsmobile and pootled along to the Hastings Spark office (was Telecom but they rebranded - don't get me started), only to be told in a sneery kind of voice: oh no we don' have one, we don' carry this model phone any more - best try Trade me!
I'm so sick of this!
More and more, it seems technology is outdated within weeks, days, hours!!
I remember when (yes, I'm really going to start a sentence - I remember when)...TV's lasted years and years and years. Phones? Before cordless came along and WAY before cell phones, we had the same land line phone in the house for decades.
Now - if it ain't the lastest device like an iphone 6 (which renders iphones 1 through 5 obsolete) it ain't nothin'.
Landfills are filing up with discarded technology that dies or is updated after too short a time. Fer shame!
Bah humbug, and yet, love and peace - Wozza
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