Date   : Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:53:56 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Electric Dreams last night.

Tim Matthews wrote:

> AAARGH!! I hate this kinda statement. Today's technology will be crap in
> 30 years time.

Yup. And my kid's kids will be there with lots of annoying statements 
like "you called it windows? why?" or "it's you old farts that went and 
killed the books" or "hahaha, I don't see what it brought having 
somebody able to phone you anywhere - you all seemed to want to have a 
more solitary life but then you turn the planet into a big living room - 
I don't get you" or "hahahaha, Katy Perry? Who? Didn't you have real 
music?" or "Daddeeee, they're showing reruns of Lost on YesterYear 
channel - did you watch that first time around?".

You know, all the sorts of annoying stuff we'd ask when we were younger, 
like me questioning mom on WTF Dylan (as in Bob) was on about with the 
wind howling like a hammer, and Gregory Peck? Who? [the bloke in To Kill 
A Mockinbird, a pretty fine film if you don't have attention span issues].


> And trying to ram a Betamax tape into a VHS player doesn't help! 
> but where did that Betamax tape come from in the first place??
> The camera was a JVC VHS camera, wasn't it?

In my mind, probably wrongly, I tend to associate JVC cameras with the 
dinky VHS-C.


Format wars are perennial - HDDVD/BluRay anybody?

I would have supported HD-DVD simply because it annoys me when brands 
make names from incorrectly spelled words. And yes, I count Xemplar too.


Best wishes,

Rick.

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