I got into a conversation with my parent in law and some of their friends.  They are all 60 somethings and were talking the latest technological gadgets that are about at the moment.  They are all folkies and not the most up to date.

My parents in law openly admit that they are behind the times when it comes to technology (I believe their computer is actually powered by a water wheel), and they keep saying they are going to get themselves up to date.  I doubt it will happen unless someone drags them kicking and screaming.

They were talking to one of their friend who had recently got himself the free satellite package from sky.  He had the sky box but no viewing card so he only gets the basic range.  What he didn’t know was there is a difference between freesat and freeview.  There is a wider range of channels on Freeview and to get all the channels on freesat you need to get a special viewing card from sky for a one off fee of £20.

Apparently he spend ages trying to tune his freesat box to get UKTV Dave channel (easily the best one there) but couldn’t.  Unfortunately he had been using the freeview website for the channel list he should be receiving not the freesat one.

After that the conversation turned to high definition.  My Xbox 360 is connected to used with the 19 inch HDTV in my house as our big TV produced a really poor picture for it.  I am not too bothered about getting my channels that are HD as I find for normal TV the pictures are just fine.  My sister loves her technology and  has huge HDTV and I must admit that for programmes like life and Earth it does look amazing.  The one thing the confuses me is the difference between 1080i and 1080p, I have heard that people don’t think 1080i is really full HD, I finally got around to looking up what each of these means (I really like technology forums for this) and found out that I don’t really care, 1080i is good enough for me.