Tag: Digital devices

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Your first/funniest/most awkward/useful encounter with computing, and/or matters digital.

I await your contributions, which I’d like to record. We did something like this once before during Covid times on Zoom, in 2025, and several of us wrote “our encounters” up for Thought grazing.

I wrote the following post …

My first encounter with computers

We had a number of other contributions, from Margaret …

My first encounter with computers

… from David Hughes …

My first encounter with computers

… from Paul de Guess …

My first encounter with computers

… and from Renee …

My first encounter with computers

There were many other amusing and interesting contributions, so we felt it worthwhile to kick the new year off with a trip down memory lane. Enjoy.

Here’s the audio recording. I’m afraid the transcript is far from perfect, and life is too short to go in and edit it …

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Developments (generally rather expensive) in Digital TV display technology

In my breathless tour of Digital TV this week, I didn’t mention developments (generally rather expensive) in display technology – I should have. Along with 4K/UHD resolutions increasing the number of pixels on your screen, LG, Panasonic and Sony are introducing anew display technology called OLED whilst Samsung are promoting their alternative rather confusingly called QLED.

The article below explains the difference between the two technologies, and if you’ve got the dosh, you could trot along to John Lewis and buy one …

https://www.johnlewis.com/browse/electricals/televisions/view-all-tvs/oled/qled/_/N-6srfZ1z0rgkwZ1z03a2e

https://www.howtogeek.com/327047/whats-the-difference-between-oled-and-samsungs-qled-tvs/