Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - What a load of crap

I just got around to setting up the new combo DVD/VCR Elina got me for Christmas, I was going to get a digital HD Tivo but I don't record that much TV.
This post is not meant as a 'look at all the toys I've got blog entry' more of a 'how did our lives get this complicated' entry after looking at all the electronic crap I now have in my living room and the out of control arrangement of spaghetti wires I have at the back of my furniture.
 If you look closely in the photo you can see;
A printer, wireless router, i-pod, webcam, PC and surround sound speakers, DVD burner, laptop, DVD/VCR combo, X-box, AV receiver, HD tuner, small DVD ( hacked to play foreign movies), LCD TV, inra-red wireless headphones, and various remote controls.

 I have not even included the Bose surround sound speakers and bass woofer unit, 2 cell phones, video camera and numerous power outlets hidden away from sight............. 

 Nothing seems to be compatible and everytime I buy something there is a better more expensive cable you have to buy, HDI, SCSI, firewire, Pictbridge, a new orange digital RCA jack on the DVD that I've never even seen.
Then there's regular, HD and blue-ray DVD, it's a conspiracy by the movie and electronics companies, so that you never, ever have the latest movie format being watched on the best definition and sound quality video or sound component. 5.1 surround sound, became 6.1 and now the latest 7.1 outdates all our expensive speaker systems.

 It's crazy while all the glossy ad's say " It's so easy and convenient"............. no it's bloody not.
I'm just wondering how long it will be before I succumb to the generation gap and have a flashing, unworkable expensive piece of electronics that I can't even tell the time on or know how to adjust.......... just like our Grandparents and the first VCR they bought........