I just don't get it

I watched a DVD the other day.  well, a Blu-ray DVD if that makes any difference but whatever.

Anyway, I got really cross.  Not because the film was rubbish (The Muppet Christmas Carol is after all an absolute classic), but because it took so bloody long to actually play.

There was the time taken for my player (a lovely Marantz one) to actually start up, then I had to load the disc and wait for that to be recognised, then there were the menus (why do I have to select where in the World I am to watch it?) and another wait while it finally decided to play.

All this took over a minute.

Yes, a whole minute.

And this made me angry because in this age of instant entertainment a minute may as well be an entire lifetime.

It was only when I helped to put the Christmas decorations up the loft again that I realised how utterly stupid my anger had been.  And that was because in the loft is an old VCR - a video cassette recorder - along with a box of old video tapes.  Back in its day it too was very much state of the art.  I dare say it still works just fine but there it sits, gathering dust.

What was I thinking?  Why did I get so angry?

It was only a few years ago after all that watching an entire movie from a small compact disc was completely futuristic.  And yet now, such is the pace of technology, it is almost redundant.

I do wonder where it will all eventually lead though.  I mean, my internet speed is just fine (it's around 50 "mbps" - whatever that is) and pages load instantaneously, and things download in the blink of an eye.  But looking at some reviews on the web you'd swear I was living in the dark ages.  Just how fast do people want things to be?

I'm getting old, aren't I?