Last week I wrote a short history of media and promised to describe a set-top box you won’t find in the shops but which does pretty well everything associated with a TV set; audio, photos, video, live TV and internet. So here it is. Above is my TV set, underneath which you can see a […]

Once upon a time we had 3 TV channels, a “wireless” set, a Dansette record player and no computers or mobile phones because they were still the stuff of science fiction. That was then and now is now. A visit to any electronics store or supermarket reveals a huge array of baffling items, many of […]