Technology's Mighty Strides

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Here are some of the most amazing ways in which home entertainment has improved -

VCRs through to DVD/Blu-Ray

Anyone who is old enough will be sure to have fond memories of their very first VCR! For many of us, our initial video recorder would have been a hulking great ‘top-loader'. However, you have to remember; this was ‘state of the art' stuff at the time!

Ugly they may have been, but that did not stop them from being magical. All of a sudden we had the ability to ‘pause' a programme, ‘fast-forward' through naff soap-powder adverts or ‘record' the late-night film if we had to get up early for work. Wow! Now this was living!!!

Little did we know what joys were to come in the years ahead. Anyone who has only grown up during a time of DVDs will think we must have been mad...

ZX81 through to Home PCs

Okay, so most of us thought that the ZX81 was pretty crap (even in its heyday), but it was still ‘cutting edge tech' back in 1981...

However, things certainly got a lot more exciting when the ZX Spectrum was introduced! Good old Sir ...
... Clive, we knew he'd come through in the end!!! (I know, let's just not mention that C5 idea...)

And of course, it didn't stop there. We had the Commodore 64, the Atari ST and the Amiga 500. Oooo, heady times indeed!

Up until the advent of home PCs and the internet that is...

Magnavox through to Nintendo Wii

Blip!.........Blop!-----Blip!.........Blop!

Any child of the seventies will remember this hellish sound. Yes, it was the sheer wonder of a Magnavox video game system (complete with one channel audio capabilities)! How on earth did we ever get so excited about it????

Mind you, the Atari 2600 was a whole different kettle of fish and it still has a tremendous amount of Retro appeal!
But since the old wooden-cased Atari wound down, it's all gone a bit Berserk (classic title!) really... we have had the NES, SNES, Megadrive, Saturn, CDi, Gamecube, N64, Xbox, Xbox 360, Playstation 1, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Wii...

Where will it all end? And do any of us really want it to?

BBC1 through to HDTV

Once upon a time, there was just one single solitary television channel. And the only satellite dish equipment you were ever likely to see would be stuck on the top of a Gerry Anderson spaceship with Bostik! It's all a tad hard to imagine these days, isn't it?

It's certainly a far cry from the here and now. The kids of today would think that the world had slipped off its axis if they didn't have two-hundred-odd TV stations to flick through after getting home from school!