Nov 21 2008
Damn you Technology
This is something I have to get off my chest. I love technology. Love the advances it has made in our every day lives. What irks me is that the more technologically advanced we get, the more the market makes you purchase. Don’t agree with me? Well how about this fact? You should know by now that by February of 2009, all TV will broadcast in digital only. No more analog and the rabbit ears. Now everyone will have to buy a digital box. I don’t know about your neck of the woods but here in Canada or Montreal at least, it will cost you $99.99. That’s per TV don’t forget. If you want to take advantage of the HD channels then you have to buy a separate box that can cost upwards to $300.00. Want to record your favorite shows while you’re not home? That will set you back over $500.00. If you want to hook up your PC to your TV, you will have to buy a HDMI cable. Everything is about buying more and more! Remember the good old days when you could turn on your TV and that is all you needed to do? No box, no nothing. I’m just venting. In actually what are we to do about it? Don’t give in? Sure I could do that but I would be missing my favorite shows. I don’t even watch TV as much as most people. We are all slaves to the market. It’s not like most of us will say, “no I will not buy this and this and that”. Yea right!
Hey Mrs B.
I know, isn’t this rediculous? The good thing is, is that those of us not in the U.S. will still have access to some channels without ‘the box’, but regardless, I thought having extra boxes hooked up to your T.V. was sooo 20 years ago (remember the push button remotes that were wired to the television set?)
I guess we’ll just have to revert to just reading books again and save ourselves some money to survive this recession.