My grandmother is giving up TV...
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My grandmother 89 years old, and after a few years of hardly ever watching TV. Has given up on all the soaps in the last year and then phased out watching the news each day as well. So she now has stopped watching TV altogether and today packed away her TV set.
Why?? - Because it's all crap? No
She's that set in her ways (we all are that age) and scared at the whole 'converting' to digital thing (fear of change) she is giving up TV altogether.
Only starting this thread because I think other older folks out there will do the same thing.
Why?? - Because it's all crap? No
She's that set in her ways (we all are that age) and scared at the whole 'converting' to digital thing (fear of change) she is giving up TV altogether.
Only starting this thread because I think other older folks out there will do the same thing.
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Can someone not buy her a Freeview box? They're only pennies, £10 in Argos at the minute
I think its sad with all the old people and the digital switchover.
and I have once shown her how a freeview box works but you could see her heart begin to race and a panic attack come over face "why do we have to change why can't we keep it as it".... so I gave in.
Sounds like autism to me.
Well my father (her son) goes on about it being ''fasism'' how it's been forced on us. I don't waste my breathe on arguing back tough.
Cant you just show her the freeview again and explain that its just a case of pressing channel up and channel down?
It's ironic all this. I too, along with my partner are watching less and less TV, as we find the majority of programmes so boring, repetitive and an insult to one's intelligence - of course there are exceptions.
I'm a technophile and so it is nothing to do with being afraid of the the digital age it is just that fewer programmes on TV interest me anymore. I don't watch the majority of sports that are on and we gave up watching Corrie just over a year ago, now.
Yes, just as we've qualified for free TV, because of age, the TV set remains off more than it is on now.
I've never watched 'breakfast TV' and may turn the TV on at lunchtime to watch Working Lunch, which soon ends and so there is even less reason to be a couch potato.
Sounds like being old to me.
I don't think the OP was saying she couldn't afford a freeview box, just that she's afraid of using it.
Someone suggested getting her a tv with built-in freeview, which would be more like her old tv but with more channels.
oh ok..there was a comment about her being afraid to spend money..
Change "more like" to "no different from" and you're there. Nothing technical to get up tight about. Turn it on, press '1' and you're watching your local region's BBC1 same as before. The only difference is that you're watching a digital instead of an analogue signal.
You're right, i missed that bit. Perhaps her family could club together and buy her a new tv in that case.
But HHGTTG is right, even with freeview there's not much I want to watch these days.
Yes she could knock up the century! Asda Donnington have got some pretty cheap TV's with freeview built in OP if you can stretch to it.
To be fair, all my old man watches is snooker and Alan Titchmarsh, he still reads a lot and listens to the radio
Look at it this way: either you're lucky, and she lives quite happily for another eleven years and gets her text from the Queen, or you are unlucky, but the kids get an almost new digital TV for their bedroom.
A bit of an insensitive thing to say, isn't it? :rolleyes:
Did you try getting a digital TV with freeview built in and showing her how it works, setting it up and everything?