I don’t have my telly connected to anything other than a satellite dish and an aerial for Digital Terrestrial Television. When I was looking at possibly replacing the CRT in the bedroom, I had a look round an electronics shop and found the focus is on connected now. A sales associate tried to sell me on the benefits of hooking my tv to the internet. I wasn’t convinced in the slightest and it appeared from his facial expressions that he thought I was odd for not hooking it up. There wasn’t much of an answer to “If I don’t watch streaming services what’s the point” I do have Amazon Prime for the next day free delivery but I use the video side of that at work during breaks as we don’t have a television in our pokey staff room.

Is that not normal now, am I showing my age? I don’t want someone else knowing what I’m watching and that’s what these tv’s are reporting to someone, and then showing me adverts based on that info.