Technical Support

I got home today to find two frantic messages on our answer machine. One was my dear old Dad, the other from my Mum. My Dad spends 12 hours a week hooked up to a dialysis machine so he uses a tape walkman a lot, well he did. The one he has used mostly is Sony and they don't tend to have a high volume output, so he started looking for a new one. They tried several from Argos that either didn't work weren't loud enough. So today they have been to Comet and come home with......wait for it........an MP4 player. God help me, what have they done. Apparently it has a radio that he can use while they learn to put music on it from the PC. Like I said, God help me.

The second call from my mum, apologising for the first call and also informing me that my old Toshiba 32" Picture Frame TV (the first one) has switched itself off and wouldn't work most of the day. Strange. Anyway sounds terminal, and old Toshiba CRT TV's all suffer from a common failure of a component that costs around £100 to fix. This one also has a scratch right in the middle of the screen so its not worth saving. So time to buy a new LCD TV, £300 for 32" or £400 for 37" to 42" should do it. Toshiba/LG/Samsung or something similar. Anything but a Tesco special will suffice. I will have to wait and see what the budget is first (and the urgency).