What a shock only a black and white fuzz on TV. After watching it for a while decided to tell my old aunt that the signal had gone off. It wasn’t the signal that bothered her though, it was the new remote. So complicated with buttons very close together. I knew it was to be a long morning.
The digital switch-over man had been 2 months ago but my aunt said she’d use it on the day so thought I’d better make sure I was there. I’m so clever with the technology so taking the new remote I clicked and found it didn’t work. What am I going to do, there’ll be a fuss. But then I noticed the new box light started blinking and thought it must be getting new channels automatically. No such luck so I diverted my aunt while I fiddled with the remote. After about 10 minutes a blue picture came on. Flicking through a few menu’s decided ‘new’ set up would be just the job and amazingly it appeared to be scanning for channels although the man set it up 2 months ago. Relief when BBC came on.
That was only the beginning with my aunt looking at this remote and saying she wanted her old one. So I took out the battery, I knew she’d use the old one and mess up the TV. She did. It must have had one final button push of power without the battery. Anyway with my beautiful diagram listing only the 5 buttons needed on the new remote there was some channel switching and volume up and down. A bit of TV off, then after saying don’t turn off the digital box, off it went. The button is next to the TV off button. It got a bit complicated and my aunt threw the remote down and said put on the radio.
The next thing was the ITV button. I’m thinking what ITV button. Oh, the TV button for on and off. She says why doesn’t it say on and off, why does it say TV (or even ITV according to my aunt). The other button is for the digital box. Digital box! Oh my gosh. On leaving she was using the remote but will the TV work tomorrow. Will it go off tonight?
Digital switchover, try telling an octogenarian who has a lifetime achievement for technophobia.