This is a scene plucked, with a little embellishment, straight from life. A short while ago I was confined to barracks with one of this year's award-winning bugs. One day I decided to try and sort out the tangle of tubing behind my TV unit so that I could record freeview programmes through the DVD recorder. I eventually triumphed, after a lot of swearing, but also then found myself questioning my own selfish materialism in the face of all the real problems in the world.
Now, the TV aerial should go into the video.
No – wait a minute.
Let’s try putting it straight into the DVD recorder.
That’s it.
Right then, another lead comes out of that, into the digital tuner.
Okay.
Then from the digital tuner into the video.
And finally a lead from the video back into the TV.
Great.
Okay, SCART leads.
One from the TV to the DVD.
One out of the DVD to the tuner.
One out of the tuner to the video.
Great.
So, stick the tuner and the video on.
Put the video on the AV channel.
Great.
Turn off the video and switch on the DVD.
Set source to “SCART”.
Great.
Flight 11 crashes into the north tower.
Bursts of flame, plumes of smoke. Good picture.
Try another channel.
Children starving in Kenya. Filthy drinking water.
Flip
“A British soldier has been killed in Iraq, bringing the total to…”
Flip
“A teenage boy has been stabbed in Hounslow.”
Flip
“We are getting reports of an explosion…”
Flip, flip, flip.
All seems to be working.
Great.
Now I can record Heartbeat.
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