Olympic Games - what a joy =)
I'm going to put music making, game making and web site developing aside here and write about something else today.
I've been looking forward to the olympic games this year, I am not an huge fan or anything - I just enjoy the competitive atmosphere and want to watch it for an hour or so every evening.
I have a Samsung PS42S5H plasma TV that I bought 28th July 2005. During the olympic ceremony, the TV goes KLICK and red pixels spread across the TV = properly broken. In sweden we are covered by law against manufacturer faults that occur within 3 years of purchasing hardware, such as a TV, despite the fact you may only have a one year manufacturer warranty. It was 3 years and a week or so when my TV broke, just my luck =) But it turns out as the first TV that got delivered to me in 2005 it was defect on delivery, so I had it replaced... so with some hope I will still get it repaird/replaced for free, fingers crossed... This, however, does not help me watch the olymic games as getting the TV repaired/replaced will take a month or more.
The solution? I'll use my 24" BenQ G2400W monitor with HDMI input until I get the TV replaced (or buy a new one)... My digital box from CanalDigital is only analogue outputs so I figure this is a great time to order their HD-package with the new recordable digital box that allows you to pause live broadcasts and record anything to the harddisk... Great. I place the order and 5 days after - still no delivery. I call CanalDigital and ask them where my new HD-box is and they say - hey, there's something wrong with your account so we switched your channels off a few days ago, didn't you notice? I say NO I haven't as my TV is broken, what about my HD-box order, where is it? Turns out there was an error in the billig system and the order could not be placed, so they fixed the issue with the billing and placed a new order for the HD-box and switched my channels back on that I still couldn't watch...
Yesterday (2 weeks into the olympic games) my new High Definition digital box arrives I plug it into my BenQ screen and watch the olympics in 720p for a good hour before I go to bed... a happy bunny. Today, I come home to watch a few more summaries after work and there is an error code blinking on the HD-box. I couldn't resolve the issue myself and no metion of the error code in the manual so I call CanalDigital and explain the issue... Turns out the damn HD-box is trying to install a software update it downloaded from the satellite. The version downloaded is the SAME as the one already installed in the box... You would think this would not be any sort of a problem, but oh yes, it is a problem... So big that it can't be fixed apparently and they have to send me a NEW box with a delivery time of 5 working days. It's a weekend coming up now so it looks like I'll have the box maybe wednesday next week. By then the olympic games are over.
Oh - the joy of technology. I'm sure the next box I receive and the TV will get repaired, just in time to break for the next olympic games.
=) I like to complain sometimes, is that apparent?
I've been looking forward to the olympic games this year, I am not an huge fan or anything - I just enjoy the competitive atmosphere and want to watch it for an hour or so every evening.
I have a Samsung PS42S5H plasma TV that I bought 28th July 2005. During the olympic ceremony, the TV goes KLICK and red pixels spread across the TV = properly broken. In sweden we are covered by law against manufacturer faults that occur within 3 years of purchasing hardware, such as a TV, despite the fact you may only have a one year manufacturer warranty. It was 3 years and a week or so when my TV broke, just my luck =) But it turns out as the first TV that got delivered to me in 2005 it was defect on delivery, so I had it replaced... so with some hope I will still get it repaird/replaced for free, fingers crossed... This, however, does not help me watch the olymic games as getting the TV repaired/replaced will take a month or more.
The solution? I'll use my 24" BenQ G2400W monitor with HDMI input until I get the TV replaced (or buy a new one)... My digital box from CanalDigital is only analogue outputs so I figure this is a great time to order their HD-package with the new recordable digital box that allows you to pause live broadcasts and record anything to the harddisk... Great. I place the order and 5 days after - still no delivery. I call CanalDigital and ask them where my new HD-box is and they say - hey, there's something wrong with your account so we switched your channels off a few days ago, didn't you notice? I say NO I haven't as my TV is broken, what about my HD-box order, where is it? Turns out there was an error in the billig system and the order could not be placed, so they fixed the issue with the billing and placed a new order for the HD-box and switched my channels back on that I still couldn't watch...
Yesterday (2 weeks into the olympic games) my new High Definition digital box arrives I plug it into my BenQ screen and watch the olympics in 720p for a good hour before I go to bed... a happy bunny. Today, I come home to watch a few more summaries after work and there is an error code blinking on the HD-box. I couldn't resolve the issue myself and no metion of the error code in the manual so I call CanalDigital and explain the issue... Turns out the damn HD-box is trying to install a software update it downloaded from the satellite. The version downloaded is the SAME as the one already installed in the box... You would think this would not be any sort of a problem, but oh yes, it is a problem... So big that it can't be fixed apparently and they have to send me a NEW box with a delivery time of 5 working days. It's a weekend coming up now so it looks like I'll have the box maybe wednesday next week. By then the olympic games are over.
Oh - the joy of technology. I'm sure the next box I receive and the TV will get repaired, just in time to break for the next olympic games.
=) I like to complain sometimes, is that apparent?
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