Tomorrow is the end of the world. For Foxtel at least. Well, as far as having me as their number one unpaid critic. You would think that with all the coverage I was giving them, they would have given me a “comped” account. But no, they ignored me – mostly. Apart from when they took [...]
Every Government knows that to keep the sheep constituency happy – you need to feed them four hours of entertainment daily to “pay” them for the addition to the national coffers (Tax). The other day I found some DVD’s at a barrow stand in a shopping centre selling for $2.00 each. They were all [...]
What to do with my aging music and video collection. Like many 50+ year olds, I have an entertainment collection. LP’s 35 45’s 29 Cassettes 65 CD’s Music 112 CD’s Videos 9 VHS Movie 146 DVD’s Music 17 DVD’s Movie 85 BTW, there are quite a few duplicates, casettes of LP's and CD's [...]
When Rolls-Royce sells a car, they want the user to have the highest level experience.For this reason, no matter how old a Rolls Royce is, if it breaks down – the owner can count on Rolls to turn up to get the car off the side of the road. After all, that’s the Rolls Royce [...]
Or “No sir, we cant sell you the movie – It’s no longer in Production.” I was born in 1958 in New Zealand to Hungarian Refugee Parents. My first English word was not uttered until in 1963, six weeks before my fifth birthday, I was forced to attend St. Benedicts School in Khandallah, Wellington, [...]
Why is it that we love to speculate about what is going to happen to someone else’s industry, business, economy, (you name it) – but we are less enthusiastic about accepting the inevitability of change to that which we are directly involved in? Is it because we are all infallible? Is it because we think we [...]
The price of DVD’s and CD’s have steadily decreased over the last twenty-six years. I started a Video Store (Video World) in Darwin in 1982. Trying to obtain content was an interesting experience. Beta was available but VHS was yet to make its appearance outside Japan. My initial stock of 42 titles was Beta. e.g.: [...]