NEW TV for elderly man …

RavingMad

Possibly stick to the Sharps/Toshibas you see in the supermarkets? My FIL has one and only uses the built in Freeview.  I've no idea if they've gotten smarter over the years

Eco_Miser

matelodave said:

GDB2222 said:

I was mortified when I saw my hospital discharge report, which described me as an elderly man. I’m in my 70s, and elderly is ten years away.

I'm 78 going on 79 but like you, "elderly" seems a long time away. I meet regularly with some of my old workmates, most are in their 80's and one of whom is in his nineties but you wouldn't call any of them elderly.

I've only got got 3/4 of a century up, but I'll happily call myself elderly if it gets me a discount or other advantage. We're all well over the biblically allotted three score year and ten.

Some of them are creaking a bit mechanically, but we are all capable of learning new things and we all have quite complex hobbies.

Dont forget that we are the generation that invented most of the stuff that people are using nowadays, (including mobile phones and computers etc) rather than just improving it.

Actually, computers (digital, electronic) were around when we were children, and actress Hedy Lamarr invented a key principle of wi-fi during WW2. These things are older than most people think.

On the subject of this thread, I don't know what is currently available, but I do know I don't want anything labelled as 'smart' - that means it's doing what it was programmed to do, or worse, what it feels like doing, not what you want it to do.

bob2302

Eco_Miser said:

Actually, computers (digital, electronic) were around when we were children, and actress Hedy Lamarr invented a key principle of wi-fi during WW2. These things are older than most people think.

This gets exaggerated. She came up with the idea of repeatedly switching the control frequency of a radio-controlled torpedo to make jamming harder. She didn't invent frequency hopping, it had already been implemented elsewhere. 

twopenny

Ada Lovelace... Analytical v Difference engine 1815 - 1852

knightstyle

Sorry if this offends but this thread reminded me of this....