tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17674921.post6759654266761449866..comments2023-07-25T13:50:02.601+01:00Comments on My Word 1: STUFF IT! I AM NOT INTERESTED......ZACLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07289333819869440699noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17674921.post-85103502099231162512010-06-11T22:01:25.143+01:002010-06-11T22:01:25.143+01:00Hello Ax,
You make some salient points. Yes, it ...Hello Ax,<br /><br />You make some salient points. Yes, it will create sales, (some specific crime, no doubt) the Government will, it hopes, make some money from selling the freed up analogue wave- bands.<br /><br />As you say, the kidology is, all is better than ever. Time will tell, and our pockets will be lighter for it.ZACLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07289333819869440699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17674921.post-55961820875112516302010-06-11T21:49:51.029+01:002010-06-11T21:49:51.029+01:00everything these days seems to be allotted a life ...everything these days seems to be allotted a life span and woebetide anybody who tries to linger behind the pace-setters in life.<br /><br />we still believe that something brand new is an improvement and things that have served us well for many years become consigned to the scrapheap without a second thought.<br /><br />satisfaction seldom follows progress.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17674921.post-42121435116182610592010-06-11T21:07:22.627+01:002010-06-11T21:07:22.627+01:00Hello Mr F.
Good on you! Can you re-tune your ra...Hello Mr F.<br /><br />Good on you! Can you re-tune your radio to digital? If we can continue to get channels we want when analogue radio is switched off,(doubtful) then we will be keeping ours if they are still working as they do now. <br /><br />We made a decision to get the TV as we have a history of a digi box not working. By the time we totted up the cost of a new aerial plus a digi-box, the TV purchase looked a lot less painful as it did not need either purchase, installation or tuning. <br /><br />XXZACLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07289333819869440699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17674921.post-39731421562183942152010-06-11T16:27:22.961+01:002010-06-11T16:27:22.961+01:00I've no intention of buying a new one until th...I've no intention of buying a new one until the old one no longer works! Flighty xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17674921.post-51461550515547627512010-06-11T09:49:41.476+01:002010-06-11T09:49:41.476+01:00A delightfully humorous reply with lots of sober n...A delightfully humorous reply with lots of sober notes.<br /><br />I am not a luddite; I do remember cathode tube radios, the warming up period and the bakelite casings. We had a cream one, which I sat close to so I could hear my favourite broadcasts in a noisy household. It is today, why I am a radio listener. <br /><br />Progress in communications is fascinating, much of it is beneficial. This forcing of changeover from analogue to digital media, is about market forces as much as progress. The old bands can be sold to the best bidders for other uses. In other words, Government coffers can coin in some dosh.<br /><br />Personally, I see no reason to move over to something that has not been technologically refined. I strongly object to being forced to do so. Just now, there are attempts at seducing us to buy. The tactic will change when the decision to switch us off analogue radio broadcasts is taken. <br /><br />I am not one for having the first public sales development of anything. Incarnation three onwards, would be about my starting point, if 'it' suited my life style. So, as I said, till then "Stuff it"!ZACLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07289333819869440699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17674921.post-51542848073806774042010-06-11T05:43:24.137+01:002010-06-11T05:43:24.137+01:00Quite right, ZACL. Why don't they leave things...Quite right, ZACL. Why don't they leave things alone? But of course they can't. We become attached to things as if they are our possessions. Of course my old radio belongs to me, but i don't own the analog system and am unable to preserve it.<br /><br />I feel like this about beautiful old pubs too, well one in particular, when a new lnadlord modernised it - The Crown in Penn. I have complained to them bitterly about it. They have even recognised their mistake, up to a point, when they turned part of it into a "fine dining restaurant" with formal fittings and table service instead of the previous cheerful-casual pub arrangement where the tables and benches don't match, dried hops hung from the rafters as they had done since tie immemorial and precous Audubon prints hung from the walls. They made it bland and faceless.<br /><br />But I don't own the pub and the few visits I make there in a year don't entitle me to dictate its decor.<br /><br />and as for radios, sometimes we just have to fake it. I have a plastic Bush portable, a reproduction of a Fifties design but with the FM/AM/LW all modern circuitry. At any rate it works better than the genuine fifties one. And if we have to go digital, they'll doubtless have nostalgic retro versions too. Probably do already.<br /><br />Or we could go to Cuba, where the march of modernisation has been slowed down, and they still drive Fifties American cars. I would like to go there - for a vacation anyhow.Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297306807695767580noreply@blogger.com