A few years ago, we acquired a large TV. Probably Jamie and Nera were upgrading and offloaded their reject on to us. We were not unhappy to take it because it was 140cm (55 inches) from corner to corner and had a curved surface. Our normal, smaller, TV was relegated to the spare room. The new TV was so large it wouldn't fit on the TV table so I had to buy a length of timber from Bunnings to extend it.
We don't watch much live TV and prefer to download favourite shows and watch them when it suits us. I keep the downloads on a hard drive which connects via a cable. It's usually no problem. Until yesterday, when I discovered the TV would no longer 'read' the hard drive. The short-term solution was to re-install the old TV and shove the big one into the garage for Jamie to look at when he had time.
We were astounded: going back to the smaller TV was a huge problem. We've become so used to the big-screen that the smaller one is almost unwatcheable. When Jamie arrived, he scratched his head and wondered what to do. He suggested that we might have to discard it and buy a new one so I gleefully started looking at Harvey Norman and The Good Guys websites to see how much we would have to spend. I'd probably need $1000 which wasn't great.
Then Jamie realised there had been a Samsung update overnight when all Samsung devices around the world were fiddled with by Big Brother. The Samsung website suggested a 'soft reboot' would help and it explained how to do it. Two minutes later, everything is back to normal and, happily, we don't have to put up with a sub-standard 100cm TV nor spend $1000 to maintain the lifestyle we're used to.
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