Any other technophobes?!

I echo Willow , am tech savvy but can’t be bothered to keep up...its irritating. Am ok with GN but bored with the day to day life of bills/banking online would sooner go to a counter and pay ‘em. Also have Virgin and 2 TVs ..you need 2 boxes and they set them up.

Petra I only use my lap top once a week, I use my iPad every day, there is only google

Type Bing in the search box on your iPad, Anniebach

kate1947 probably not. Scart connections are analogue and USB connections are digital so if your recorder only has a scart (which is usual) you won't be able to use it without a converter and it would probably be better to try a USB stick or buy a box and a DVD player. Amazon and other places sell a cable with a scart at one side and a USB at the other but I discovered afterwards that they are a con and that I should have read the reviews first.
Recorder boxes record the channel you are watching and I don't think that you can get ones that record one channel while you watch another but someone else may know one that does.

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I find it easier to watch catch up on a smart TV and most things are on catch up at least for a while so your way of watching changes and so I haven't bothered to buy a recording device. Also YouTube is just like another channel.
I was annoyed at first that I couldn't connect my DVD but I'm not bothered now although I probably will get a player at some time as I have a few DVDs I haven't watched.

Annie
Lisagran has just put exactly what I was going to say.
If you want to search through Bing, just type it in your search bar.

Bing is from Microsoft - I don't trust them much either.

I use a search engine called DuckDuckGo with Safari on my iPad and other Apple devices. It doesn't track you and respects your privacy. I also use a VPN to connect to the internet (if there are any interested techies reading this).

Sparkle fizz and Hillwalker.....don’t you mean you dislike technology ‘after a point’ ....considering you own a CD player....?? Wasn’t that ‘new’ technology when vinyl went the way of the dodo!!?! You sound like my husband who thinks he doesn’t ‘do’ technology !! He watches myriad tv screens rather than the 3/4 he was brought up with!! He uses a remote rather than getting up and down out of a chair ( all technology surely) I think we all choose what we like to call technology ( usually stuff we don’t or WONT understand( ... and the stuff we DO understand we assume isn’t technology. We’re all ‘cherry pickers ’...

Saggi You're right.

Get one, they are though like washing machines, you end up only using half the programmes.

4allweknow Whilst feeling overwhelmed when I first upgraded to a smart phone, I asked my techy daughter if she used every single app etc on hers, and she said "Don't be silly, Mum", so I agree with you.

We have a smart tv, a non smart tv, smart phones, 2 desktop computers and I have a tablet. I use the aspects of technology that I personally find useful ie. I use my phone as a phone and to send texts and occasionally as a SatNav don't watch films or play games. My tablet I use a lot, also my desktop computer. DH never uses his computer and very rarely uses his phone, its a PAYG and he tops it up perhaps once a year. But he has taken total control of the smart tv even though he doesn't really understand it. Thats fine with me, I rarely watch TV and have no interest in films or YouTube. If DH is watching something that appeals to me I'll watch otherwise I do something else. I'm not a technophobe, I have built 3 computers from scratch, that way I get the components and software I want not what the manufacturers think I should have. But because TVs and phones can do lots of clever things doesn't mean I have to use all of those features. I have a kindle but never use it, I prefer paper books. Two of our AC recently acquired Alexas, I simply said 'Why?' All the other technology they already have can do what Alexa does so why clutter their homes with another gadget. Having said all that I would love to have a laptop as I find the keyboard of my tablet irritatingly small.

I can, in theory, use my TV as I wrote down all the instruction and steps on a piece of paper. However, I am lazy and let the DH do it all. He likes to sit with the TV controller like Alexander the Great surveying his empire and he zaps through the ads too.

We only watch one thing a night, if that, and we decide what to see from the newspaper TV listings or from browsing the Netflix or Amazon Prime menu.

I think we have a good balance of using the advanced IT with which we are blessed but without letting it rule our lives - or spy on us.

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