RE: Showshifter & me - all your base belong to us

["Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>]

> I think that was the point of the post.  Where you have room for
just
one
> box, the only box which will do everything is a PC.  BTW, this
is
going to
> sound insulting to some, and for this, I apologise, but, I've
noticed
that
> the older generation (by this, I mean most people over 40, and some
in
> their
> 30s - I'm early 20s, so anything over 25 is old!) don't like
> multi-functional boxes.  There seems to be this thought that a
box can
> only
> do one thing at a time.  Where you can do multiple things with
one box
> just
> as well as a multitude of boxes (which is not the case with Tivo,
ATM),
> why
> not?  It's efficient.

I don't think it's insulting at all but I have learned a very valuable
lesson in life from using PC's and working with many a mechanical
device, as well as having an analytical engineering mind is that when
you ask a machine to do multiple tasks then there is simply more to go
wrong! Add to that the extra usage and wear and tear on the mechanicals
of the device and you, generally, have a recipe for disaster. Now think
how many sub-systems rely on that one item and you get my point,
instead
of one item being out of commission, several are!

TBH Andy, I use my PC's for a variety of things and I don't have a
problem with that at all in the main and the best of luck to those who
do use them for the likes of video editing or whatever, personally I
don't think that the Windows OS is best suited to that task
particularly
where you have to run other apps alongside it.

K.



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