Im not good with technology. With technology always expanding and our knowlege always increasing, most 18 year olds are semi government approved computer hackers or rocket scientists nowadays. I however fall on the opposite side of the wall. I got my first mobile phone when i was 16. By todays standards thats pretty late to get one. Most kids get a mobile at around 12 or 13 nowadays as its considered a social must have for your child if you want them to go to Secondary school without becoming a social outcast...or as the youths like to say a "GAY" which of course has nothing strictly to do with sexual orientation. Its more of an insult at secondary school. Anyway, when i got my mobile i didnt like it. I have had 2 other mobile phones since then and i have hated all of them too. I have never been too fussed about phoning people, but what im even less fussed about is taking pictures with the thing. I like photography...and by that sentament alone i think its only justified i hate phone cameras. Photography is an art form, not a fucking 2 pegapixell nightmare. If i wanted my photos to look as square orientated as an early PS1 game i would ask for it. Im pretty sure that modern mobile phones dont even have the "call" function anymore. They have gone from being "camera phones" to "phone cameras" the "phone" element has become the extra.
The reason i felt compelled to write this little piece on modern technology is because recently i was in Greenwich and visited a shop that sells records, dvds and videos. I like it in there. its simplicity pleases my mind. Granted if you want a dvd from there its going to cost you a lot more than in your local HMV but luckily i didnt. What i wanted lived downstairs. I wanted some VHS. True you cant get new movies on VHS anymore but who the hell wants new movies? I bought 6 videos all for around 10p each. I am one of the only people i know that kept their VHS player and im glad i did. Sure the visual quality isn't great and the sound quality can be near terrible but to be honest it all brings back memories for me. There was a time when a local HMV only had VHS and i remember it.
Anyway my point is that with the release of BLU-RAY recently, are DVDs soon going to become extinct like VHS? If it does then it will majory piss me off because being the movie fan i am over the past year i have built up quite an impressive DVD collection of aroun 70 - 80 DVDs and i refuse to get a BLU-RAY player. I refuse for a few reasons. Mostly because i cant actually see this magical "improved quality" everyone is going on about. Im sure its there but i cant see it. The picture quality still looks rough to me. Although to be fair the first time i experienced BLURAY properly was at my friends house and we watched the modern masterpiece Alien Vs Predator Requiem...which was such an astronomicaly bad piece of shit i almost vomited. I mean what the fucking hell kind of prinkle calls the hybrid of an alien and a predator a "Predalien" Its also so darkly filmed that that might have impeaded my judgement. But either way im not replacing all those DVDs.
Fuck you ever increasing technology. I might buy some laserdisks just to be spitefull.
