Another slave to tech

So, I finally get around to reading more of my backlog of email, to discover that there were a couple related yet totally separate emails waiting for me. They had to do with the ongoing changes in technology for entertainment at home.

First I look at the most recent Future Shop promotional email. They let me know that there is this newest in DVD players...oh wait, maybe that is a term I should not use? It is the NEW Blu-ray disk and HD-DVD player. All I could think was: WHAT?? Don't tell me my extensive DVD collection is going to be going the way of the Beta cassette already!!! Well I took a quick look at it, they don't provide much info and certainly no price on the first page I link to. There is a link to "Buy Now", I don't wanna buy until I know the price, and I don't want to click that link without knowing what it costs first. So I close the window and delete the email into cyber-oblivion.

Next stop is an email I had been putting off since last week, the latest from Mark Morford of SFGate. The title is "Sweet DVD Players in Hell"( http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2007/03/02/notes030207.DTL&nl=fix ). I figure, what the hell, might as well check it out. Guess he is a bit more up to date on tech than I am cuz his article includes a mention of Blu-ray (which I still don't know what it means). His article is very humorous, and very true. I can identify with that internal dialogue when going to update tech in my own home.

Just recently I made the move away from the VCR (which is currently gathering dust in the upstairs hallway, but will be coming back to the living room after all cuz there are videos I need to watch and they are only on VHS). I went out and bought a DVD Recorder. It is great. Wonderful menu choices, lots of fun buttons to push that I haven't figured out what they do, except to get me stuck in a spot I don't want to be. *sigh* I love technology, I love the neat things they can do, I love learning a new program or function of one I am familiar with, but sometimes, leaving things the same for a while is great too.

Talking to a community relations officer of a local charity got me thinking that I actually might know more than the average person my age when it comes to intricacies of email and such (yet I don't think I know that much, still haven't experience Blu-Tooth tech yet, however my cell phone is capable...). I try to focus on what is important to me at the time, and learn new things when needed. If I have no applicable use for something then I leave it since it will change sooner that we think anyhow.