I always know a product is really about to take off, not when I buy it, because I am a fairly early adopter, but when my mother gets it. My mother has recently just installed HD television, so it can only be a year or so to go before it is really widespread!

My mom, Jane de Broglio, is a top rental agent, with her own company, Debro Estates, whose website you can find at www.debro.co.za and probably South Africa’s leading residential agent, given that even the Institute of Estate Agents used her to lecture to other estate agents on how to properly attend to leasing a house or townhouse and looking after the interests of the landlord and the tenant. She also told me, a little bit more than 10 years ago, that she would never, ever in her life get a cellular phone. If she is now getting HD, you must understand that it really has broken through!