My sister arrived this morning with her 20 year old television to replace my 25 year old television so that I can hook up the DVD player I've had for two years.
How simple that sounds when I type it.
The House Bwca and I spent about three hours playing with electric cords and coloured leads and wondering why we couldn't get anything to work. It did help when we put batteries in the DVD remote control. Well, I'm very careful with things like that, I took them out when I wasn't using the DVD and I forgot.
We eventually had a picture running from the DVD to the TV and no sound. It was okay because we're both old enough to remember silent movies and it was a comedy so we laughed. During her tea break my sister turned up with a tech savvy friend who told us we needed a three pronged cord which he'd brought with him and we were using a two pronged cord which came with the DVD so not our fault.
The film was funnier with the sound. Then we spent another hour trying to get the picture back by running the TV through the VCR. (is everyone still with me?) We finally did that but we don't know what we did so we'll probably go through it again tomorrow night.
So it was an elephant stamp for the House Bwca for the DVD, one for me for getting the pilot light on the space heater to stay lit and another one each for not spilling the Bombay in frustration minus one for me for thinking it was the end of Daylight Saving and putting all the clocks back.
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And we still don't know what film it was.
Don't you hate the fact that these days every single TV, VCR and DVD set up is different and ever house you go to or every time you try to set it up is totally different from every other time? Why is that? Why can't they make it simple and the same...? Gaaaahh I hate doing that sort of stuff it drives me crazy
LOL Should I suspect that the bottle of gin was still involved?
We have to run our Foxtel and DVD through the VCR for our ancient TV (1975 Thorn EMI first colour TV furniture model) to cope...and hanging hubby from the neighbours spouting in a thunderstorm with the aerial helps too :P
NO IT WASN'T PRON, FLEETWOOD, LIKE I CAN'T SEE YOUR MIND FROM THIS DISTANCE.
Therese, I'm at the age where I can't remember how to ride a bike let alone a DVD.
Jayne, my Kriesler 1975 model went down only last year. The last time a technician went near it, he said on no account move it, breathe near it or sneeze on it. The solder holding it together was that fragile.
My daughter is a whiz with that kind of thing. For the price of a Big Mac meal she'll visit and spend an hour or two shoving cords in and out of appliances and pushing buttons on remotes. When she leaves she tells me which remote does what and which buttons to push on this or that one. I have strict instructions to NOT push ANY OTHER BUTTON. She said recently thta the next time I buy new equipment I should buy her the exact same stuff so that if I do stuff it up after she's connected me i can just email her and she'll give me long distance instructions on how to get my viewing back. nice theory, but then I'd miss out on a visit.(And she'd miss out on a Big Mac.)
River, she can have a credit account with McDonald's and a bed for a year.
Noise is the source of all knowledge techno in our house. Unfortunately, this causes him to think he is the sole owner and controller of all things techno in our house too.
I can send him over. Just say the word.
If you lived in Adelaide I'd arrange a time and send her to you. Let's see now, she works until 10pm, sleeps until 10am, goes to the movies with her best friend Saturdays.......
This is Noise, the nephew of Wookie right, never in a million years!
River, they've just released a study showing teens need to sleep later in the day. Why didn't they just ask mothers?
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