The Remote Control. How much stress does it cause in your house? Or is it just here?? And why does it always go missing? It’s caused the most arguments here over the festive period. Admittedly very much a first world problem but a problem nonetheless.
Then comes the additional stress of the digibox thingymibob. Yes it was wonderful, at first. Pause and rewind live tv……WOW. Then came the stress. You pause something, watch it,halfway through you accidentily press a button by mistake and its gone. You record things and then halfway through you get that message “Your digibox is full”- que mad panic to delete random things off the box, whilst your heart races to get there in time because its recording the one thing worth watching on tv in the last three months.
You get a spare hour to yourself and decided to catch up on something but generally when you sit down its been deleted to make space for a series link of Top Gear or Grand Designs.
Then your five year old works out how to use it and your tv has constant flashing memo’s that Barbie in The Nutcracker is about to start.
Then to add to the confusion. NTL or Upc or whatever they call themselves have now brought out an app that lets you record things even when you’re not in the house. I discovered this when watching and recording something at the same time last week only to discover my husband was out but still managing to control the tv.
Its technology gone too far. Bring back the VCR and a remote that could lower the volume and allow you to change channels. Life would be less stressful.
