Brave New World

[patsfangr]

***** Old dog. New tricks. I just finished watching a DVD on my laptop of one of my favorite earlys days of USA TV series, 'The Rebel'. Now that, in itself, is no big deal. But, as I watched it, the thought of the total electronic world I was experiencing really struck me. Now this is one that you old dogs can really appreciate.

***** I was watching the DVD on my laptop because my TV was otherwise occupied. During the Patriots - Jets game, my friend Ed Fackler had sent me an email from Japan asking me to make him a copy of the game. When I got his email, I hit the record button on my cable DVR, while I was burning a DVD of my own from the live broadcast. I would then be able to make another DVD for Ed from the DVR recording.

***** So, tonight, I set about to do that. But I noticed that there was a good movie on one of the cable pay channels that I wanted to see. I set my cable DVR to record that movie. Then I started the recorded Patriots game, and began burning it onto a DVD on my DVD recorder. Left with nothing to do, I hooked up the laptop, and started playing some DVDs of 'The Rebel'. (After this note is finished, I'll watch some "Tour of Duty" and "Have Gun Will Travel" episodes that I also have on DVD.

***** Now, folks, as a child, I sat by the radio listening to episode of "Gang Busters", "The Shadow", and "The Jack Benny Program", marvelling at the fact that I could hear these programs from thousands of miles away as they were happening! Now, here I am watching a recording on a small machine in my lap, while recording another from a current TV broadcast, and also recording a previously recorded program onto a little round piece of plastic that I can send to a friend.

***** How can we not be overwhelmed by what has happened to our world, old folks?!!

[aaaaaa]

yeah! truly a marvel !

[britmaveric]

And the best has yet to come....

[mrbojangles]

I'll watch some "Tour of Duty" 

they're running that series in the UK on Sky at the moment, the Mrs loves it

And the best has yet to come....

I agree, but the trouble is, you don't know when to buy the latest "gadget" in fear of it being super-seded the next week by something better

[Pattaya_Fox]

George...I`ll bet you can even answer your mobile phone and at the same time use your electonic toothbrush...well done!

[patsfangr]

George...I`ll bet you can even answer your mobile phone and at the same time use your electonic toothbrush...well done!

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Believe it or not, Foxy, I do not own a cell phone. My wife does, but I don't wander about enough to need one. I will buy one when I reach Thailand, if only because the phone service there is so unreliable. (And don't get me started on the subject of people driving with a phone held up to their ear!)

No electric toothbrush either. Still going the 'old fashioned' way there!