Christmas Chain Reaction

Santa was pretty good to me. I got a HD camcorder. Small and light compared to my old analog video recorder which uses 8mm tape. And it is what I actually wanted for Christmas (I also got a high end vacuum cleaner, but it's not here yet). The downside to upgrading the camcorder is that it is going to force me to upgrade a whole bunch of other things. The software that comes with the camcorder to view and edit videos has a minimum recommendation for CPU speed and memory, which is beyond what I currently have. It, of course, also recommends an HDTV. But I still have a big tube TV, perfectly functional, perfectly fine. So if I'm interested in getting the full potential out of this new toy, I must also now upgrade my computer. The HD video files are quite large too. This means I have to upgrade the size of my backup disk drive. Of course, I must upgrade the aforementioned TV to an HDTV. Which means I must naturally upgrade my digital cable receiver to an HDTV version. A flat screen TV sitting on a TV stand made for a big tube TV also looks pretty stupid. So I have to upgrade my furniture. HDTV requires different cabling as well. So all my current cables that go to and from various audio-visual devices must be upgraded as well. And by the time I finally upgrade everything to work with the camcorder, the camcorder will be obsolete.