I love new technology, but the talk of this coming new Sony SHV (Super
High Vision) system is making me sick, having only recently spent
several hundred pounds on a new HD ready TV. Apparently this new super
high vision format makes HD look pale. Here I am, twisting my
handkerchief waiting anxiously for HD transmissions to start so I can
at last enjoy what this new TV can do, and now it's already got a
schedule for the scrap heap. I haven't even seen a HD picture on it
yet! aaaarrrrrgggghhhhh! I can't take any more of this.
It's the same with DVD. It's not been out that long, I've finally
found my feet with recording editing and burning SD movies on the
computer and such and now it's all going to be replaced by either Blue
Ray or that other Toshiba one to accomodate the increased capacity
required by HD. This means all the software I've mastered is
redundant. The capture hardware I have will be obsolete by the time I
blink, and it was expensive. My 4:3 screens belong in a skip. There's
a whole new learning curve ahead of me with HD and Blue ray and such.
And have you seen the price of HD capture hardware for computers?
Nurse!

"tg" wrote in message
...
I love new technology, but the talk of this coming new Sony SHV (Super
High Vision) system is making me sick, having only recently spent
several hundred pounds on a new HD ready TV. Apparently this new super
high vision format makes HD look pale. Here I am, twisting my
handkerchief waiting anxiously for HD transmissions to start so I can
at last enjoy what this new TV can do, and now it's already got a
schedule for the scrap heap. I haven't even seen a HD picture on it
yet! aaaarrrrrgggghhhhh! I can't take any more of this.
It's the same with DVD. It's not been out that long, I've finally
found my feet with recording editing and burning SD movies on the
computer and such and now it's all going to be replaced by either Blue
Ray or that other Toshiba one to accomodate the increased capacity
required by HD. This means all the software I've mastered is redundant.
The capture hardware I have will be obsolete by the time I blink, and it
was expensive. My 4:3 screens belong in a skip. There's a whole new
learning curve ahead of me with HD and Blue ray and such. And have you
seen the price of HD capture hardware for computers?
Nurse!

BUT, how would you like it if you lived when I was a boy. NO electricity,
only gas or candlelight. The fastest you could get from A to B was 35mph
(fast horse) etc. etc. Nothing changed for hundreds of years - how very
boring!

--
John the West Ham fan

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:57:24 GMT, "housetrained"
wrote:

BUT, how would you like it if you lived when I was a boy. NO electricity,
only gas or candlelight. The fastest you could get from A to B was 35mph
(fast horse) etc. etc. Nothing changed for hundreds of years - how very
boring!

Blimey! You must be well over 150 years old!

"Laurence Payne" lpayne1NOSPAM@dslDOTpipexDOTcom wrote in message
...
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:57:24 GMT, "housetrained"
wrote:

BUT, how would you like it if you lived when I was a boy. NO electricity,
only gas or candlelight. The fastest you could get from A to B was 35mph
(fast horse) etc. etc. Nothing changed for hundreds of years - how very
boring!

Blimey! You must be well over 150 years old!


149 11/12ths to be exact. My birthday is next month.

--
John the West Ham fan

"tg" wrote in message
...
I love new technology, but the talk of this coming new Sony SHV
(Super
High Vision) system is making me sick, having only recently spent
several hundred pounds on a new HD ready TV. Apparently this new
super
high vision format makes HD look pale. Here I am, twisting my
handkerchief waiting anxiously for HD transmissions to start so I
can
at last enjoy what this new TV can do, and now it's already got a
schedule for the scrap heap. I haven't even seen a HD picture on it
yet! aaaarrrrrgggghhhhh! I can't take any more of this.

Well if you weren't so ready to be taken in by all the marketing
hype...

Have you noticed that the CRT has disappeared from the 'sheds' whilst
they have all but disappeared from the High Street, at the same time
the Flat Panel TV set has seen the cost of buying a TV (with a worse
picture quality) double or treble - and we're not even talking about
the cost of HD yet, nor the fact that the only broadcaster who is
(really) transmitting HD programmes is BSkyB and that it's going to be
some years before HD becomes mainstream, indeed I suspect that some
'HD Ready' sets will *never* receive a true HD signal!

housetrained wrote:

BUT, how would you like it if you lived when I was a boy. NO
electricity, only gas or candlelight. The fastest you could get from A
to B was 35mph (fast horse) etc. etc. Nothing changed for hundreds of
years - how very boring!

You had gas and candlelight? You were lucky................

"housetrained" wrote in message
news
"tg" wrote in message
...
I love new technology, but the talk of this coming new Sony SHV (Super
High Vision) system is making me sick, having only recently spent
several hundred pounds on a new HD ready TV. Apparently this new super
high vision format makes HD look pale. Here I am, twisting my
handkerchief waiting anxiously for HD transmissions to start so I can
at last enjoy what this new TV can do, and now it's already got a
schedule for the scrap heap. I haven't even seen a HD picture on it
yet! aaaarrrrrgggghhhhh! I can't take any more of this.
It's the same with DVD. It's not been out that long, I've finally
found my feet with recording editing and burning SD movies on the
computer and such and now it's all going to be replaced by either Blue
Ray or that other Toshiba one to accomodate the increased capacity
required by HD. This means all the software I've mastered is redundant.
The capture hardware I have will be obsolete by the time I blink, and it
was expensive. My 4:3 screens belong in a skip. There's a whole new
learning curve ahead of me with HD and Blue ray and such. And have you
seen the price of HD capture hardware for computers?
Nurse!

BUT, how would you like it if you lived when I was a boy. NO electricity,
only gas or candlelight. The fastest you could get from A to B was 35mph
(fast horse) etc. etc. Nothing changed for hundreds of years - how very
boring!

Very few people had electricity when I was a lad, street lights were all
gas, a man used to come round with a hook on a pole to turn the things on, I
never acheived 35 mph on anything, had a bike for my eighth birday, but
never rode more than 2 miles!

The only person who had a motor vehicle was the baker, and he used to start
it with a handle, and there was a small ring sticking out of the radiator,
which he used to pull on whilst turning the handle, I thought that ring was
vital and if I ever got a motor vehicle, it would have to have one of those
rings!

The milkman came with a horse and cart, he milkman would collect the bottles
from the back of the cart and put them by the door, in the meantime the
horse would walk up to the next house ready for the milkman to take the milk
out of the cart for that house, very intellegent horses they had in those
days.

And, there was the 'stop me and buy one', I miss all that!

Those were the days.

Alan Holmes wrote:
"housetrained" wrote in message
news
"tg" wrote in message
...
I love new technology, but the talk of this coming new Sony SHV (Super
High Vision) system is making me sick, having only recently spent
several hundred pounds on a new HD ready TV. Apparently this new super
high vision format makes HD look pale. Here I am, twisting my
handkerchief waiting anxiously for HD transmissions to start so I can
at last enjoy what this new TV can do, and now it's already got a
schedule for the scrap heap. I haven't even seen a HD picture on it
yet! aaaarrrrrgggghhhhh! I can't take any more of this.
It's the same with DVD. It's not been out that long, I've finally
found my feet with recording editing and burning SD movies on the
computer and such and now it's all going to be replaced by either Blue
Ray or that other Toshiba one to accomodate the increased capacity
required by HD. This means all the software I've mastered is redundant.
The capture hardware I have will be obsolete by the time I blink, and it
was expensive. My 4:3 screens belong in a skip. There's a whole new
learning curve ahead of me with HD and Blue ray and such. And have you
seen the price of HD capture hardware for computers?
Nurse!

BUT, how would you like it if you lived when I was a boy. NO electricity,
only gas or candlelight. The fastest you could get from A to B was 35mph
(fast horse) etc. etc. Nothing changed for hundreds of years - how very
boring!

Very few people had electricity when I was a lad, street lights were all
gas, a man used to come round with a hook on a pole to turn the things on, I
never acheived 35 mph on anything, had a bike for my eighth birday, but
never rode more than 2 miles!

The only person who had a motor vehicle was the baker, and he used to start
it with a handle, and there was a small ring sticking out of the radiator,
which he used to pull on whilst turning the handle, I thought that ring was
vital and if I ever got a motor vehicle, it would have to have one of those
rings!

The milkman came with a horse and cart, he milkman would collect the bottles
from the back of the cart and put them by the door, in the meantime the
horse would walk up to the next house ready for the milkman to take the milk
out of the cart for that house, very intellegent horses they had in those
days.

And, there was the 'stop me and buy one', I miss all that!

Those were the days.


I remember a bloke who came round with a handcart selling shellfish. My
Mum used to send me our with a jar to get a pint of cockles!. Whatever
happened to them!

I remember a bloke who came round with a handcart selling shellfish. My
Mum used to send me our with a jar to get a pint of cockles!. Whatever
happened to them!

Look in the back of the fridge. :¬))

On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:11:37 +0100, Mike O'Sullivan
wrote:

I remember a bloke who came round with a handcart selling shellfish. My
Mum used to send me our with a jar to get a pint of cockles!. Whatever
happened to them!

Sitting in a hut outside a pub. Or, still, coming round the bars with
a basket.