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| Upgrading into the 21st Century |
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| Talk,
Mr Harbour-Barbour,
20 January 1999 | |
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Finally a grand step in technology, as a bright new innovation in home entertainment arrives in my home. As of today I will be sliding video cassettes forwards and into the video recorder as opposed to letting them drop roughly in from above. My Phillips VR 6560 sits with a heavy heart at the top of the stairs, ready to find a new home courtesy of the twice monthly WI jumble sale. Sitting in the dust shadow vacated by Phillips VR 6560 is the pugnacious new child on the block, the Samsung SV620B. Such is my wistfullness at this changing of the guard that I felt compelled to take a snapshot of them together on the sideboard – with some fruit and flowers to brighten the scene a little. Watching the chunky old timers slow reliable red LED flashing in recognition of the sprightly multi-function electric blue readout of his progeny moved me to etch a message with a compass on both their undersides – ‘Dies Irae est morte, momentus vivre dies Irae ‘. Whether this invalidates the warranty, I am unaware.
A leap forward in technology of this nature usually follows either a period of economic boom or a long war. Few wars of any global note have erupted in recent months, yet the numerous incidents of sales and offers in my local high st. suggest the financial side of my domestic situation are on the up and up. Shrewd cost-cutting as far as I am aware has allowed me this honour of being, as far as I know, the first on my street to own such a device.
The difference is staggering. Now I am given to choose between a wild cornucopia of options. I can ‘pre-set’ (a sort of promise from the machine itself) up to one hundred different tasks at different times over the year. I have the ability to watch video recordings from the United States of America! I can enjoy a ‘surround-sound’ experience, which the salesman at the shop assures me is the exact facsimile of actually being there – right there on TV!
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