TV systems keep improving, and this scares me. I think this could be very bad for the sports industry, considering watching a game on the tv allows one to pause, rewind, and get a good look at the individual sweat beads on the player’s foreheads. Hi-def is really amazing. Watching football has never been such a delight. I have to stop myself and wonder, “do I like it because it is football, or because it looks pretty?” Generally if I am in an honest mood it is the latter.
Anyway, my house in SA was recently equipped with one of these DVR, hi-def, big screen wonders, and I have never felt so inept in my life. I consider myself pretty good with technology and computers and stuff- I can ctrl-alt-delete with the best of them, but I was stumped by this tv. We had three remotes,(before we got the super-computer remote with an lcd SCREEN on it. Yes a screen- that is for later), none of which were simple-looking. I found that I couldn’t even turn the tv ON or OFF. What happened to the big red POWER button? I usually just kept pushing buttons until the screen turned a shade of blue and noises were coming out of our sound system as the tv set itself to record every episode of an obscure show on channel 2,349. That, or my mom had to come help me.
How embarrasing.
I am young, hip, and in accordance with my generation should be totally technologically adept. If I were a REAL twenty-something, I should not ONLY be able to turn on a tv, but also hook up my super trendy itty-bitty ipod to the sound system and make it log onto the internet for me while simultaneously answering my phone calls and taking pictures.
(NOTE: I am not in possession of a super trendy itty-bitty ipod, or any sort of mp3 player. Perhaps this is my problem.)