Amazon Prime Household

Dungassin, I've got Amazon Prime, whcih is excellent value for money.  When I get home I will check to see if there is anything there about family subscriptions.  

We just share the one account.

No, only one of the two family members needs to have Prime membership to be able to share the benefits

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/he...tml?nodeId=201806560

Thanks for the info.  That's what I wanted to know - if we could just share the account.  Think I'll give it a go.  Not looking forward to having to sort out SWMBO's technophobia with yet another new 'toy', though.   I can probably expect to be summoned multiple times to sort out problems of her own making (sigh)  

Dungassin

re 'SWMBO'

Does she manage to eat and drink unaided? I'm increasingly worried about her as she is portrayed in threads here as such a naïf. I do think it is perhaps time she was reperesented here, or perhaps just let her have a read of your posts and report her response.

Bruce

I fear if Mrs Dungassin was to get sight of this here forum, something terrible would happen to Mr Dungassin.

I like to think she contributes to her own preferred Forum and describes him as He Whom I Ignore whilst describing his manifest faults and weaknesses!

Bruce

tonym posted:

I fear if Mrs Dungassin was to get sight of this here forum, something terrible would happen to Mr Dungassin.

It's a risk worth taking Tony...

I'm a Fan, just started watching Mr Robot

tonym posted:

I fear if Mrs Dungassin was to get sight of this here forum, something terrible would happen to Mr Dungassin.

DR Dungassin (retired), please.  

Bruce Woodhouse posted:

Dungassin

re 'SWMBO'

Does she manage to eat and drink unaided? I'm increasingly worried about her as she is portrayed in threads here as such a naïf. I do think it is perhaps time she was reperesented here, or perhaps just let her have a read of your posts and report her response.

Bruce

She's actually a very bright lady, but has various 'blind spots'.  These, alas, are all technology related.   Doesn't matter how many times I show/tell her how to do things such as shrink/enlarge windows on her computer, she never seems to remember them.  My next task is to try to show her how to switch the wifi off/on to cure the occasional marked slow down with Safari on her MacBook Pro (recent pressy  from yours truly, after I bought 'yet another guitar')

She, of course, thinks that I should be able to remember anything she tells me only once.   I remember when she went into hospital for her knee replacement, she was surprised that I was actually WRITING DOWN her instructions on how to use the washing machine.  I did point out that the last time I'd done had been when she went in for an operation more than 30 years previously.

Then we have things such as her telling me how to take photographs, where she conveniently forgets that it was me who showed her how to do it in the first place (sigh).  I always leave her camera in 'idiot mode', albeit with a couple of pre-programmed settings for things such as macro and landscape shots.

I love her, really.   After all, we've been married for nearly 45 years.

Bruce Woodhouse posted:

I like to think she contributes to her own preferred Forum and describes him as He Whom I Ignore whilst describing his manifest faults and weaknesses!

Bruce

Dungassin posted:

tonym posted:

I fear if Mrs Dungassin was to get sight of this here forum, something terrible would happen to Mr Dungassin.

DR Dungassin (retired), please.  

That was quite ... surely the DR upgrade has only been available for a couple of years and you've already retired them!

Dungassin

I guess you will have seen this but had me in stitches when it came out in a Christmas BMJ

Bruce, I remember that one.  Must have been at least 15 years ago. (probably longer, but you know how fallible memory can be)  

Well, I've joined Amazon Prime.  Set up the PS4 in my study to access Amazon Video (isn't it nice to have toys?).

Unfortunately it turns out that the TV in the living (Panasonic 3D model) is too old (purchased 2014) to access Amazon Video directly, so I'll have to get something like an Amazon Fire Stick so SWMBO can use it.  Not too mention that she is already using all of the 4 HDMI inputs on that set, so I'll also have to climb into the loft to see if I can find my now redundant HDMI switch  (assuming I didn't give it to one of the charity shops).

Treat yourself to an Amazon Fire TV DG. It's better than a Stick IMO, the voice control works extremely well for finding stuff instantly. In case you didn't realise, you do have to power the fire stick.

Dungassin posted:

Bruce, I remember that one.  Must have been at least 15 years ago. (probably longer, but you know how fallible memory can be)  

I bet nothing has changed!

I've already ordered the voice controlled version of the Fire Stick and it's on its way to me.

BTW, have you noticed the thread about the Marantz Video processor in Home Theatre?  I referenced you there to the OP.

Well, I'd better go and hide a my Hamer Studio Guitar - 3 grandkids about to descend on us unexpectedly this afternoon.  If I don't, the youngest will detune it for me (yet again).

Well, I installed the Amazon Fire Stick, and moved her DVD recorder to SCART. (had to pinch one the HDMI TV ports for the Amazon stick)  Hardest bit was getting the back off the remote to install the batteries!  It seemed to be stuck, but now comes off more easily.

As predicted, the complaints and random button pressing have started, exactly as I could have predicted.

1. Picture not as good now from DVD recorder (well it's SCART, not HDMI, what did she expect?)

2. Exhibiting her usual inability to think logically about anything technologically based.  I had to physically remove the remote control from her as she'd got into the settings menu.  Otherwise I'd have had to go through everything putting it back to 'normal'.

3. Can't seem to get her head round Voice Control.  Hopefully that will come with time.

(sigh)

My wife has no problems with voice control.

If she runs true to form, she'll settle down with the new fire stick in about 2 weeks.  As I said before, she never reads manuals - she thinks that's my job.