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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Re: VCRs and cable TV
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Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 10:52:11 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  3 10:52:11 1985
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> Am I the only one offended by the following comments?
> 
> > > 	1.  My wife is not technical, and the extra switch is just
> > > 	    that much more complexity.
> 
> > 	I too have a wife that when I first brought all this 'High-Tech
> > 	Garbage' (her words) into the house almost was afraid to go into
> > 	the living room.  After about 2 days my 5 year-old son had 
> > 	learned to work the whole set up which humiliated her enough to 
> > 	learn how.
> > 	                    My suggestion: Your wife only needs to know
> > 	enough to play the TV or a tape; all the features of a VCR she
> > 	doesn't need, and won't use anyway.  Patiently explain how to
> > 	tune the TV and then what switch to push for the VCR.  She may
> > 	not go near it for awhile, but will eventually want to see
> > 	some movie or such (especially if you bring home her favorite
> > 	on tape).  It takes awile, but the culture shock wears off.

Just the facts.  My wife also refused to learn how to work our video
setup.  After three years she still does not know how to program the
VCR for recording, nor does she want to know, nor will she let me teach
her.  The only way that she can operate the system is with a sketch
showing how each switch and channel selector has to be set to view,
say, VCR playback.  If she wants something recorded, she tells me
to record it.

Nobody claimed that "all women" are non-technical, so please don't take
offense.  But there are still people, both male and female, who are
not technically competent, some who have phobias about technical
stuff, and some who simply don't enjoy it.  And I suspect there always
will be.

Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug