We got a new TV. Actually, it’s not a new TV. It’s just a new programme thing. You know, where you can pause programmes or record them or get a whole series that’s been on before. Am I making sense here?
I had been sceptical about getting it because I thought that if we recorded everything we wanted to watch and kept it til later. We’d never move from in front of the TV. When there are no good programmes on, we just get out a book and read. Which is ok by me. So I wasn’t too keen.
But then Danda got a Kindle Fire for Christmas and the silly thing only has WiFi connection, not wireless. So to watch films, he needs to be connected to WiFi, which is usually when he’s in someone’s house and then why would you watch the Kindle instead of the full size TV?
One of the internet companies has a system where, if you have your internet with them at home, you can access these ‘hotspots’ with your internet code and use their WiFi when you’re out and about. Perfect! It just so happened that this company also do the On Demand TV thing I was talking about. So we took the plunge and decided to get it.
We got it installed a few days ago and a shortly after, Yaya and his little sister arrived for dinner and fun. Immediately they sensed the change and requested the childrens’ TV channels. So on when Mr Tumble and they were happy for ten minutes.
All seemed well. We found programmes we wanted to watch and so avoided the 8pm dip when nothing good is on and you end up watching nonsense. Danda had started to watch Spiral, a French police programme.
Last night, he decided to watch it again. When he got to episode number five, he clicked on it but the play button didn’t appear. He tried turning the TV off then on but it wouldn’t show the play button on the screen. We tried this and that and off and on and using a different channel and everything. He clicked and pressed and switched. Nothing worked.
He got more and more confused and annoyed. This went on for about half an hour until he decided to go to the ‘search’ feature and look it up. It appeared but still didn’t have the play option. We thought maybe if he cleared out the search then did it again, it might make something work. So he requested ‘clear search results’ and got rid of it…. And then we couldn’t find it again anywhere. He had deleted it off the whole TV! Incredulous, we looked around everywhere, sure that it must be somewhere. It wasn’t.
After 45 minutes of button clicking and brain effort, we malfunctioned, like robots with too much information on their memory cards, and headed for bed.
Technology 1-0 Man
lazylauramaisey 
Posted by Alex Jones on March 24, 2013 at 10:32
Technology can be easy when it works, but the first problem it can suck the time out of your life to resolve.
Posted by lazylauramaisey on March 25, 2013 at 09:41
O, tell me about it! At the moment, it’s more annoying having the fancy channels than the basics we had before, because we spend so long clicking and searching and stuff.
Posted by kindredspirit23 on March 25, 2013 at 18:20
I have things pretty well down to a science here. However, I would like to change my fine video game of Minecraft with some mods (modifications). The directions are simple, but, no matter how I have tried them, the program will not start. This happened with Oblivion and took about a month for me to figure it out. I will keep trying. All this said, to say, “I understand.”
Scott
Posted by lazylauramaisey on March 28, 2013 at 06:51
Totally! Technological hiccups are a mystery to me. They happen somewhere in the ether and I am clueless to fix them.