The chain of technology :-/

I've always been a fan of technology...and I married a technology enthusiast.  We own completely out-of-date cars...but are always on the top of it when it comes to the TV, sound system, laptops, game systems, cell phones...and I also have an awesome printer/fax in my office.  Paul has some kinda monstrosity in his office that prints...but I don't think it's called a printer.  And when one of those things breaks...we immediately find the funding for a new, most of the time updated, replacement.  We're only limited by the satellite internet...

Recently, we went to Best Buy to get an extra cable for the receiver.  Apparently, we did not have enough cords running behind the entertainment center...who knew??

We needed another cord so the sound from the new XBOX 360 could come through the surround sound instead of the TV.  While we were looking for a cord...Paul spots a whole new receiver with an open-box price.  We talk to the salespeople (yep, multiple salespeople), we talk to each other, we leave with the new receiver.  Paul (and the salespeople) explain to me that our current receiver is outdated based on our TV and the BluRay player...so we really needed to update the receiver to get the most out of the TV.  The new receiver allows for a better quality picture through the TV and is 3D compatible.  I'm not completely sold on the whole 3D TV thing...but just in case.

A few days after we get it, it completely freaks out.  One night, Paul was playing a game, and the sound just got lower and lower until it was off.  We did all the trouble shooting and I got on a live chat with a Sony tech....

Side Note...I could work as a Sony tech and be way more helpful than that clown was...all he/she did was basically cut and paste the manual troubleshooting tips... Trust me, we went through that entire manual before wasting life chatting with you.

We take the receiver back to Best Buy, they order us the same model from a different store...it'll be here in a week.

Paul changes all the settings so we can hear the sound through the TV...and found out that our TV has extremely crappy sound quality.  Thank goodness we were out of town that weekend...

We finally get the new receiver and hook it up.  Tonight, we throw in an older DVD, The Ref...a classic.  The picture comes up in a box on the screen.  It's literally like a pan-scan boxed frame in the middle of the screen...  Apparently, the receiver updated our TV to the 1080p output is was supposed to be putting out instead of whatever quality it was putting out with the old receiver.  Basically, the DVD is now outdated...

So...we went through several older DVDs...most of them are in some kind of bizarre format...square framed boxes, rectangle framed boxes, zoomed into full screen, etc.  The DVDs that we own that are post-digital filming are fine and the BluRays are fine.

Right now, Paul is on the floor in the living room pulling the older DVDs off the shelf to figure out which ones need to be replaced with BluRays...if we can even find them on BluRay.

And that's the chain of technology...we bought new surround sound for the new house, we updated the TV to catch up with the sound system, we updated the receiver to catch up with the TV, now we have to update the DVDs to catch up with the new receiver...

And it never ends...

I think I'd be a much bigger fan of technology if it were cheaper...and retro-compatible :-/