To think TVs should be easy to work

[BlindYeo]

It's the 21st century FFS and I can't switch on my own television anymore. So fucked off. Why does it take degree to work a TV these days? Even when I do manage it does something different the next bloody time that involves practically reprogramming it. Dp says "oh yeah you're on abc not xyz setting". Yeah well didn't need that doing last time and it even takes him five minutes of head scratching. Seething with rage yet again and all I wanted to relax in front of the telly. AIBU to find and murder whatever companies and powers that be who turned television usage into such a saga?

And what is it with that horrific picture setting that makes even the most expensive production look like a cheap 80's soap opera? It's gone into this mode and I can't get rid of it even when I can turn the fucker on.

To anyone who says just go and get your TV operating degree, blind, you disgrace to the X chromosome, I operated TVs perfectly adequately for thirty years prior to all this new bollocks.

I've had full on temper tantrums in hotel rooms and holiday lets before now. We stayed in one cottage which seemed to involve three different hand controls to watch BBC1. It's insane.

I feel your pain. Ours is forever doing stupid things. i can switch it on all right, but sometimes it suddenly decides to turn Audiodescription on and I can't get rid of it. Or the volume suddenly zooms up to the loudest it will go, and refuses to be turned down so I have to switch the ruddy thing off. Sigh.

I watch everything on my mobile and tablet as I've given up trying to work ours.

Thank god I am not alone. Yes my TV is making its own decisions, it should not be allowed to do that. I honestly nearly hurled the box out the window except it would have dented the car, which does what it is told and does not deserve that. Back on my PC now. AIBU is a haven of peace and tranquility in comparison.

Drives me insane, and makes me feel ancient.

We have about four frigging remote controls, and DP plays them like musical instruments.

I give up after five minutes pressing random buttons and read my phone a book instead

What really annoys me about TVs is that they still have an analogue tuner, despite the fact that analogue signals have been switched off for years. If you press the wrong button, then you leave the digital channels and end up on the analogue tuner, where there's nothing to see and you think you TVs broken, until you realise what you've done.

I also hate that the input button - one of the most used buttons - normally only has a meaningless symbol on it.

15 minutes to get both sound and picture working yesterday so I mostly get my teenagers to turn it on for me. Occasionally they will try to teach me but it is an old dog new tricks scenario and never ends well.