Bring back analogue TV
Being broker than a broke thing in the land of broke I dont do impulse buys.
No matter how much that shocking pink shopping bag appeals, it cant win against a supermarkets own budget brand of bread that will feed me for 3 days, 5 if I scrape the green bits off.
I'm also an ostrich in regards to technology.
If I dont understand it I ignore it.
For the last month every time I turn my TV on I get a message that I'm going to lose this channel when digital switchover happens.
I ignore it, keep ignoring it until a couple of days ago when I realise that at midnight I will lose any TV.
Now being a saddo that cant do without TV, I know that the time has come to buy one of those set top box things.
I ring round to find the cheapest available , and living in the arse end of nowhere, a one horse town where the horse just died, and I dont drive and buses are one a day to anywhere with real shops, cheap isnt going to happen.
So I wander into the only place within walking distance intent to buy the only freeview box they have, a mere bagatelle at £34
(damn Argos online at being out of stock for their £15 ones)
Then the salesman informs me that my current video player wont work the way it did before digital and wont record a channel I'm not watching and I need to upgrade my machine.
Now I had just left a meeting with my bank manager informing me that I was less than a year away from being bankrupt.
I did say I had to buy a freeveiw box that day but would get the cheapest available.
I was frowned at.

So instead of buying a cheap freeview box I ended up buying a freeview playback digital recorder at 5 times what I was expecting to pay.
My credit card winced.
It was an impulse buy, it was also bullying by the salesman, so a few days ago I could have posted this on last weeks QOTW.

And its crap!
The user manual may as well be written in mandarin, my TV reception is crap.
I dont want to know how much my call to the switchover helpline call centre cost me today.
They did talk me through resetting the machine ( That I paid far too much for)
And that was a waste of time.


As an aside, my first thoughts that I went from 4 TV Channels to over 60 was woooo!
50 of them are total drivel not worth the air time

Sorry long post, distinct lack of teh funniez.
But Ive just spent more than i can afford on an impulse buy that is crap
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Fri 22 May 2009, 0:02, 8 replies)

surely
The very nature of the impulse but is that they are crap?
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Fri 22 May 2009, 6:44, closed)

Your life
sounds shit.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Fri 22 May 2009, 10:29, closed)

LOL
its does sound that doesnt it.
Actually apart from being broke it isnt
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Fri 22 May 2009, 14:12, closed)

Tut.
Nothing wrong with cheapo freeview boxes.

Mine's been fine for 4 years now.
(Half of Stephen Fry's right buttock pissed on your dog on, Fri 22 May 2009, 10:44, closed)

...
(Of course, it's true that you can't watch one channel while recording another, but...you've got the internet! Why would you want to record anything off the TV?)
(Half of Stephen Fry's right buttock pissed on your dog on, Fri 22 May 2009, 10:45, closed)

Crap reception
means you'll want to upgrade your aerial, like so many people have to when they go Freeview. Much more monies!
( Rookie You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel, Fri 22 May 2009, 11:35, closed)

Or
you could get a second job which involves working in the evenings, so you won't have time to watch telly, and so your income goes up and expenditure goes down. A win-win situation.

Except that you would then have no social life. Ho hum.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 22 May 2009, 11:57, closed)

A new ariel it is then
Landlady pays for that :)
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Fri 22 May 2009, 14:13, closed)