I came across a story this morning on the abc website. Apparently Prince Philip has trouble operating his television.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/11/2710642.htm

I'm cleaning out one of the drawers in my room and I notice something glinting back at me from under the years of accumulated detritus. Its my old minidisc player. A Sony MZ-R70. Its actually the first peice of Hifi I bought after starting in the industry almost ten years ago.

Buying hifi should be a really fun process. Whats not to love about sitting down with a few good albums and experimenting with equipment to bring the best out of them? However some people find the process daunting and confusing, so here are some tips to try to make the process as fun as possible.

I'm going to miss the DVD.

The humble 12cm disc in the form factor we've grown to love will one day leave us. Its a format that will eventually fall from the earth with a whimper, not a bang and will leave behind a loyal group of followers, afraid of a world without them.

You can’t throw a rock in the store without hitting a device with an Ethernet socket. Or a wireless antenna. Or a USB port. Not that Rab lets me throw rocks inside. I just do it when he’s not looking. Convergence it seems isn’t happening, its happened.