My brother’s old CRT television miraculously died recently just after they’d bought a PS3 so he went out and bought a huge Sony HDTV that puts my puny 32″ (which I’m going to sell shortly since I’m leaving) to shame.
I’d forgotten that a lot of regular free-to-air television in Australia is in HD because of how crap it is here, so this is one of the few things I’m genuinely excited about returning home for. Even better, Darren and Kim just got Tivo which I didn’t even know was available in Australia. I’m going to be in geek heaven!
Anyway, my brother was telling me recently that he’d told the kids they couldn’t play PS3 one Sunday because he was going to watch the cricket. A short while later the twins came to him with the manual for the tv telling him it had picture-in-picture and explaining how to do it.
When I heard this it reminded me a lot of what I was like when I was a kid. Even today I love reading product manuals and it makes me happy to know that my inner geek will live on :)
It’s not like the cricket needs all of the screen to ‘watch’. Were they suggesting they play PS3 on the big part and let him ‘watch’ cricket in the small bit?
Yep, kids big – cricket small :)
“Even today I love reading product manuals”
Oh boy.
I take it I am alone in enjoying this then… :)
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Wow I really need to change my pic, I’m so not a lvl 60 dwarf.
I’m keen to see what you’ll change it to, what you consider yourself these days :P
While Tivo IS available in Australia it’s complete rubbish by comparison to the US offering.
I looked into it for my mother a little while back and like all things Australian it’s budget carrier service at full carrier prices (the QANTAS motto, or should be IMO).
It has to be better than Foxtel making you constantly pay for a service that in reality costs them nothing, like telephone line rental :)
It’s also better than nothing :D