There is a huge amount of frustration associated with not being a techie. You are always going to feel that you’re behind the curve, impotent. Increasingly the world is being slanted in favour of people who are technically proficient and who consider it important to spend vast amounts of money arming themselves with the equipment necessary to preserve their techie status.
DVDs have features that your perfectly fine but slightly old television is not good enough to avail of. You consistently feel that you are being railroaded into buying stuff that you could have done without because you can’t just watch a film in a normal way on a normal television, one that can’t take advantage of blue ray and superwide screen features on the disc.
This represents progress for who exactly? Sony, Phillips, Bosch and Toshiba that’s who. Relinquishing a perfectly good television because DVD manufactures insist on inventing nonsense features that only televisions built ten minutes ago can run certainly does not represent progress from my perspective.
Put on a DVD on an old television and it’s like trying to watch a film on your phone. The DVD gleefully reduces the picture to the size of a match box in a cynical and malicious attempt to belittle you and your antiquated equipment. When a DVD is taking the piss out of you it could be time to stage some form of revolt. The DVD has been programmed by the manufacturers to shrink the picture once it detects an old fashioned television. You are being ridiculed and made to feel inadequate by a shiny circular disc.
I had to go out and buy what I was led to believe was the latest and greatest flatscreen television to watch rented movies. The picture was great but I couldn’t hear the dialogue no matter how high I adjusted the volume. And this is the real genius of their grand satanic design; I had to return to the shop to buy speakers which would augment the pitiful volume coming from the television itself and provide me with a “complete viewing experience”. I don’t consider being able to hear what the actors are saying as being so pampered that I would classify it as a “complete viewing experience”. I would just call it “watching a film”. But “watching a film” is just not good enough anymore apparently.
Anyway I’m off to have a glass of water or should that be a “complete hydration experience”
