TV set choice

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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My five year old grand daughter wants a telly for her birthday. Leaving
aside the rights and wrongs of five year olds having tellys in their
bedrooms, the telly has to be chosen. She has given me the following
specification.
1. It must be pink
2. It be capable of receiving CBeebies and CITV.
3. It must include a DVD player.
4. It must be a nice flat one like Grandad Temper's one in his bedroom
(that's the other grandad).

From this I deduce that we are looking for a 14" LCD IDTV with a DVD
player. Pink? I might have to explain that pink isn't possible.

Ah she didn't specify widescreen then?
Children are not easilly fooled by garbage.





Guys, help me. What is there on the market?

Bill

Ah she didn't specify widescreen then?
Children are not easilly fooled by garbage.


Have you noticed the new clutch of Sat-Navs are widescreen?
Why?
I mean you want to see where you are going, not what's
to your sides. I'm with you on this one.

--

Graham
%Profound_observation%

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:16:52 +0100, "Graham" mused:



Ah she didn't specify widescreen then?
Children are not easilly fooled by garbage.


Have you noticed the new clutch of Sat-Navs are widescreen?
Why?
I mean you want to see where you are going, not what's
to your sides. I'm with you on this one.

I remember someone who was an active member of one of the GPS forums
telling me that the next generation of TomTom will be widescreen. He
failed to see why I wasn't in the slightest bit impressed.
--
Regards,
Stuart.

"harrogate3" wrote in message
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And two, by the time she's out of uni
I'll be
well past it.

Bill



or dead?



Well yes. I'm 58. Last week a good friend who was not much older than me
dropped dead unexpectedly. Robbed of his well-earned retirement. It's very
sobering. I don't know . . .

My dad's 88 and he sometimes muses about mortality. But the odd thing is,
he's very fit and he could well reach 100. I'm far from fit, and when he's
100 I'll be 70. Now to be realistic I don't expect to reach 70. So he might
bury me, rather than the other way about. A strange thought and I hope it
doesn't happen because it would upset him unbearably. We're very close and
no-one should have to stand more than one shattering berevement. He never
got over losing my mother.

I realised when Hil first had cancer that it was no good us just working our
balls off in the expectation of enjoying a long and happy retirement. It
might not happen. So I slowed down a bit, and since then I've slowed down
more. We try to have a bit more fun. To be honest, now I look back I think I
was killing myself with work. I feel so much better now.

If you're young, my advice is, live for the moment. Grasp firmly every
opportunity for fun and laughter that comes along. Have all the booze, sex,
and holidays that you can get your hands on. Do a few reckless things. Yes,
you need to work, but don't let work take over your life. Keep it in
proportion. We're a long time dead, and the sad thing is that many of us
don't realise that until we're on the edge of the grave.

Bill

"Lurch" wrote in message
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:16:52 +0100, "Graham" mused:



Ah she didn't specify widescreen then?
Children are not easilly fooled by garbage.


Have you noticed the new clutch of Sat-Navs are widescreen?
Why?
I mean you want to see where you are going, not what's
to your sides. I'm with you on this one.

I remember someone who was an active member of one of the GPS forums
telling me that the next generation of TomTom will be widescreen. He
failed to see why I wasn't in the slightest bit impressed.

I could do with a bigger screen altogether on the sat nav in one of my
vehicles. When you drive a truck the thing is too far away from your eyes.

To me the most astonishing thing about Tom Tom is the lack of mapping for
the Irish Republic.

Bill

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:01:02 +0100, "Bill Wright"
mused:


"Lurch" wrote in message
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:16:52 +0100, "Graham" mused:



Ah she didn't specify widescreen then?
Children are not easilly fooled by garbage.


Have you noticed the new clutch of Sat-Navs are widescreen?
Why?
I mean you want to see where you are going, not what's
to your sides. I'm with you on this one.

I remember someone who was an active member of one of the GPS forums
telling me that the next generation of TomTom will be widescreen. He
failed to see why I wasn't in the slightest bit impressed.

I could do with a bigger screen altogether on the sat nav in one of my
vehicles. When you drive a truck the thing is too far away from your eyes.

What you can do is run some satnav software on a laptop and stick that
on the dash, or find a PDA with a video out to feed to a monitor on
the dash somewhere, or even stick a full blown PC in there somewhere.

To me the most astonishing thing about Tom Tom is the lack of mapping for
the Irish Republic.

I've never been to Ireland.
--
Regards,
Stuart.

Bill Wright wrote:

I could do with a bigger screen altogether on the sat nav in one of my
vehicles. When you drive a truck the thing is too far away from your eyes.

I take it you have seen those fresnel lens magnifiers for small TVs? ;-)

To me the most astonishing thing about Tom Tom is the lack of mapping for
the Irish Republic.

Which map are you using? (or which model of TomTom)

--
Cheers,

John.

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On 24 Jul, 01:01, "Bill Wright" wrote:
"Lurch" wrote in message

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On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:16:52 +0100, "Graham" mused:

Ah she didn't specify widescreen then?
Children are not easilly fooled by garbage.

Have you noticed the new clutch of Sat-Navs are widescreen?
Why?
I mean you want to see where you are going, not what's
to your sides. I'm with you on this one.

I remember someone who was an active member of one of the GPS forums
telling me that the next generation of TomTom will be widescreen. He
failed to see why I wasn't in the slightest bit impressed.

I could do with a bigger screen altogether on the sat nav in one of my
vehicles. When you drive a truck the thing is too far away from your eyes.

To me the most astonishing thing about Tom Tom is the lack of mapping for
the Irish Republic.

Bill

Aren't most Sat-nav devices Postcode based (from one postcode to
another)?
Try finding a postcode in the republic......

Doc

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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To me the most astonishing thing about Tom Tom is the lack of mapping for
the Irish Republic.

Can you fit a sat nav to a donkey cart?

--
Max Demian

"John Rumm" wrote in message
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Bill Wright wrote:

I could do with a bigger screen altogether on the sat nav in one of my
vehicles. When you drive a truck the thing is too far away from your
eyes.

I take it you have seen those fresnel lens magnifiers for small TVs? ;-)

To me the most astonishing thing about Tom Tom is the lack of mapping for
the Irish Republic.

Which map are you using? (or which model of TomTom)

It doesn't matter. No Tom Tom covers Ireland, except for Dublin.

Bill