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[llewellyn237]

Got a bit of a surprise this morning... I called in on some family, my niece was doing some college work. Her and her classmates had done a public survey as part of their coursework. They asked 250 people about the electronics/gadgets they owned at home...

THREE of the 250 said they used what they had to their full potential. Two of them were Mac Book Pro owners who produce music and need every bit of the 8GB of RAM to cope with the peripherals wired to them. The other one was a doctor who used his iPad for a lot of his work in the surgery and in hospitals.

197 people had no idea what else their PC/laptop could do other than surf the Internet or type a letter and print it off! Three PlayStation 3 owners had no idea their console could play a Bluray movie!

Among the others was a bloke who had bought a £230 Sony Bluray player to play his collection of DVDs because he thought it would play them in HD and doesn't own a single Bluray disc! 

[Mrs Cakey]

Got a bit of a surprise this morning... I called in on some family, my niece was doing some college work. Her and her classmates had done a public survey as part of their coursework. They asked 250 people about the electronics/gadgets they owned at home...

THREE of the 250 said they used what they had to their full potential. Two of them were Mac Book Pro owners who produce music and need every bit of the 8GB of RAM to cope with the peripherals wired to them. The other one was a doctor who used his iPad for a lot of his work in the surgery and in hospitals.

197 people had no idea what else their PC/laptop could do other than surf the Internet or type a letter and print it off! Three PlayStation 3 owners had no idea their console could play a Bluray movie!

Among the others was a bloke who had bought a £230 Sony Bluray player to play his collection of DVDs because he thought it would play them in HD and doesn't own a single Bluray disc! 

To be fair, a decent Blue Ray player will upscale DVD to "near" HD. I know ours does

[henryd]

Got a bit of a surprise this morning... I called in on some family, my niece was doing some college work. Her and her classmates had done a public survey as part of their coursework. They asked 250 people about the electronics/gadgets they owned at home...

THREE of the 250 said they used what they had to their full potential. Two of them were Mac Book Pro owners who produce music and need every bit of the 8GB of RAM to cope with the peripherals wired to them. The other one was a doctor who used his iPad for a lot of his work in the surgery and in hospitals.

197 people had no idea what else their PC/laptop could do other than surf the Internet or type a letter and print it off! Three PlayStation 3 owners had no idea their console could play a Bluray movie!

Among the others was a bloke who had bought a £230 Sony Bluray player to play his collection of DVDs because he thought it would play them in HD and doesn't own a single Bluray disc! 

To be fair, a decent Blue Ray player will upscale DVD to "near" HD. I know ours does

Crikey LD,you marked absent again

[Kevin Wood]

Well, not surprising, really. There are people who don't understand or aren't interested in technology and those who don't read instruction manuals. Worse still, there are those who go into Currys / PC World and ask advice.

 

[dbug]

Well, not surprising, really. There are people who don't understand or aren't interested in technology and those who don't read instruction manuals. Worse still, there are those who go into Currys / PC World and ask advice.

 

 

[llewellyn237]

I suppose I'm guilty of this in a way, too...

I pay for the full package from Sky but only ever watch the odd footy game/movie now and then. The kids channels are on 99% of the time.

The land-line too. Never gets used due to us having contract mobiles with unlimited minutes. Gets used now and then to ring an 0845 number.

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

Hence I have an old Nokia that does phone calls, texts, and not a lot else.

[omega3000]

I got a cupboard and its called the useless things i bought and used once cupboard  2 camcorders 1 ps2 with a box of games cameras/phones and mp3 players . I just use a basic nokia phone for phone calls and text and thats it , i cant tell the difference between normal and HD