I rarely rarrrley post theads in this site (im more like a ghost) but i have to ask this.

Do guys ever argued with your parents, uncles, aunts or anybody much older about things like high definition, and general things about how todays technology works?

I keep telling my dad and uncle to get a blu ray player for their HDTVs but they wont listen to me. The same ol excuse "too much money*; I tell them "they're only 100 bucks" still ge the same anwser. They can afford 700 dollar TVs, but not a 100 dollar blu ray player. My dad was still using SVideo Cable for his dvds until I convinced him to get components; so that he can connect his Archos to his TV with the composite now that he has room. I going to keep trying til ill break them. My dad spent a thousand dollars for the first VHS player that came out some 30 years ago, you think people were complaining back then like they are now.

LOL, I don't even bother with my parents. They're way too old-fashioned.

They don't use facts and they still win, I gave up long ago..

I think the older you get the more you want to stay with what you are used to.

I guess the older generations aren't young enough to know everything.

Instead of proselytizing, why not help your father and uncle to determine what suits them best?

Or maybe just buy both of them Bluray players; after all, they're only 100 bucks, right?

Maybe they just don't give a rats ass about moving to BR yet? I know I don't.

Older generations learn but in a very stubborn way.

With age comes experience. The first time you see a quality standard advance, it's amazing (for you, dvd -> BD). For someone like me or your father the 6th time is meh (B&W TV -> Color -> Beta -> SVHS -> Video Disk -> DVD -> BD).

He is acting the same way you probably will act the 6th time you see TV quality advance. The first time is worth $700 bucks. The 6th time might not be worth $50.

Meh, I learned that I shouldn't generalize when it comes to older people and technology. My senior manager knows more about MS Office then I do. When I go to the supermarket, it were the elderly (and I mean at least 70+) who were hand-scanning their own groceries instead of using the regular check-out line. Mind you, this does not only involve scanning your own gorceries but also paying by card and requires the use of a bar-coded card. It took me sometime to figure it all out.

Contrast becomes more clear when giving training in our electronic patient-docs. The training mostly consists of showing where to find all the buttons and proper fields, how to find patients in it, etc. Almost everyone passes the tests required to use it in practice.
The people who don't fall in two categories:

1 - Foreigners with a very low graps of the language.
2 - Older, usually doctors/psychiatrists 50+ who don't even take time to learn about "all that computer stuff".

The second group is the real issue.

trying to explain technology to older people is like a never ending battle