Todays technology and you

Having bought a Sony Bravia 43" 4K TV on Tuesday, I decided to get a new stand for it as the first one wouldn't fit on the TV table. It's for "my den"...alright then...our front room.

At the same time, I bought a new smaller table, which would mean I could push the lot further back towards the wall. The extra bits arrived from an e-Bay seller on Friday and today.
So I've gone from this temporary arrangement with a bit of laminate flooring on a couple of blocks of wood.





To this.






I'm quite pleased as the table was only £34.95 and the stand £15.95. They are extremely well made.
I've not connected the sound bar as yest as the audio on the TV is very good from its own speakers, it also has a setting for "clear sound at low volume," ideal for late night viewing.


Nothing's simple.

I can't connect my old DVD/CD player yet, as it has scart connections and the TV hasn't any, just four HDMI and three USB sockets, so I've had to order this.



The TV also won't recognise my memory sticks with a few thousand mp3s on it. Wrong format.
There's only an optical audio-out socket, so I also can't connect it to my vintage hi-fi.


The Panasonic Viera which it replaced, (which is fine and well and now living in the tea-house) could cope with all of those functions.

Fortunately my HUMAX HDR is quite versitile. As well as recording programmes on its own hard drive you can connect an external hard drive and stick more stuff on that. It will play music from a USB stick and has the compatible sockets on the back, so I can use my hi-fi for TV sound if I choose and hear the mp3s on a USB stick in the Humax. It will also play through the TV.

It gets even less simple.


Our main TV is a cheap 43" LG in the lounge, that replaced a 43" Panasonic Viera that went t**s up a couple of years ago. The picture seems a lot darker and less clear not being 4K. My wife watches that one mostly and "thinks it unfair..." you know the rest! So I've had to order another 43" 4K Bravia... and a stand.... and an adapter to connect the old VHS/DVD/CD player under it.

 

Hi Mike

Is it too late to post here, I was quizzed when I posted on an old thread re ‘greenhouse for sale’.

In my defence, I am new here and so is everything else to me.

As much as I like you Mike I have to disagree.

“Old days”

Bar code scanning means not holding the queue up when the price ticket has fallen off..

“Mr Jones totted it up in his head” and always over charged you.

“Get home and unload” and realised that "Mr Jones totted it up in his head” and had over charged you meaning you had to return to the shop and argue the over charging.

“Brown paper bags used for some produce could be used to light the fire”

open fires are forbidden in many places and many people have central heating so no need for brown paper.

“Now the corner shop has gone and here stands the supermarket”

So we have a better selection of better quality food lots of which would be out of season in a corner shop and better hygiene, eg my corner shop lady would always blow into a plastic bag before she used her filthy bare hands to put my piece of cheese into the bag with a cigarette hanging out of the side of her mouth whilst squinting and talking to me.

“I only came in for a loaf of bread”

but as you pass the big selection on show it reminds you of all the things you need but had forgotten until you need it when the corner shop is closed.

“Have we really progressed for the better?????????????????”

In many ways in my opinion yes, you can even buy gardening products, plants and flowers which you could not in a corner shop which had higher prices on all items in comparison to the Supermarket, they also have lots of free parking so you can buy your shopping without searching for a parking space which inevitably was a long way from the corner shop who did not have shopping trolleys to wheel your goods around in.

There are many more reasons but I will stop there.

 

“Mr Jones totted it up in his head” and always over charged you.

Yes, if the item is scanned instead of tagged, the line does move faster but in the old corner shop, there rarely were line ups. And the barcode is only attached to a price that is as accurate as the person inputting the data.

Paper bags are perfect for my kitchen food scraps "green" bin. They can go directly into the green cart and are compostable.

Yes, I only came in for a loaf of bread and then saw lots of other things that I could probably use and when I got home, I discovered I'd forgotten the darned loaf of bread!

Yes, lots for food selection and yes, lots more fruits and vegetables out of season for our local area.

I enjoy shopping both type of venues. Small and large.

Here's a fun one I saw down in New Orleans

 

Wonder what Yucca stew tastes like.

 

I hope I have not hurt your feelings Mike,

it is just my opinion from a busy woman's point of view.

But I can remember years ago when items were price tagged, there was a man who had been looking through items which were the same but priced up differently, he took the one with the cheapest price on to the till and had been accused of changing the price sticker by security, everyone who heard what was going on knew this was not true, this poor man must have been so embarrassed.

This cant happen with today's technology
And I can have fresh strawberries at Christmas

 

To be honest supermarket fruit is pretty awful.
It's always picked before ripe, I know why they do it but that doesn't make it right.

 

I didn't sample it. I suspect I wouldn't like the tequila taste and I wouldn't eat the worm either!

 

I thought Tequila was made from Agave, I think Yucca stew might be a bit stringy.
Probably does wonders for the bowels

 

Apparently there is Yucca and Yuca. Yuca is an edible root that can be eaten in stews, fried etc
Yucca can also be eaten, young flower stalks taste like asparagus. The best bit is supposed to be the fruit and

was used as a laxative.

 

Not at all.xx

 

I think Verdun spotted it from the start. Good Fun page.

Remembering back to my police days. Break/refreshment times. I would often get some kind of debate going. Purely in an attempt to break the silence. Some venues were friendly, others, a traffpol (traffic cop) was like having a member of the SS in the room. I'd kick off with a simple question. Then it would develop, and sadly now and then it might almost come to fisty-cuffs. Not my intention.

When my break time was nearing it's end. I'd slip out and ride away. Perhaps days later a mate would catch up with me. The skipper had to chuck them all out in the end.

Actually starting this thread. Honestly I had no devilish plan whatsoever. Watching my youngest daughter Amanda and her two children, and how they have become so wrapped up with todays technology eg; mobile phone etc, and the world in general. Calculaters in the classroom. Never.

Perhaps I am the odd one out, but I have always had this desire to study and learn. To me simply pressing a key on a computer or mobile and reading an answer, isn't really learning.

Perhaps one day in the future a comic strip may come true. Amazing when you come to think about it but. Those comic strips. This bloke, talking to his wrist watch....NEVER. Check again. I would like to see people, yes, making use of modern say technology but not allowing it to take over their lives.

I am so thankful to all forum members who have contributed to this thread and made it most interesting and at the same time, having a good laugh, and learning about each other. Thank you.