[blindlaw] Satelitte TV Tuner Boxes

[Robert Jaquiss]

Hello Jim and List:

     On a DISH receiver, it is possible to order Pay For View movies. Would 
this fact make a DISH receiver a place of business? Also audio described 
content is not available or at least I haven't been able to get it.

Regards,

Robert Jaquiss, Member
Committee on Research and DEvelopment
National Federation of the Blind
Email: rjaquiss at earthlink.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Barbour" <jbar at barcore.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Satelitte TV Tuner Boxes


> I'm curious, what would be the legal basis be for a suit against Dish,
> comcast, Direct TV, etc?
>
> Jim
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 03:57:38PM -0800, Ford, Tim (CDPH-OLS) wrote:
>> If anyone is looking for another possible case, how about the complete
>> lack of accessibility of my Dish Network satellite video tuner/recorder?
>> I assume the same lack of access exists for all the satellite and cable
>> system video recorders used by all those companies.
>>
>> The unit is essentially a computer, with a hard drive and an operating
>> system.  There are a series of menus, left and right arrow options, a
>> button to select, etc.  It strikes me that it would not be a hard task
>> to put speech output into that operating system, especially since it is
>> a set amount of options and commands.  Just for fun, I asked DISH
>> Network about a set of instructions so that a blind person could operate
>> their video recorder.  Needless to say, they had nothing.
>>
>> Yes, I can change/select channels, but that is about it.  The rest of it
>> involves too many steps and series of choices, and the choices vary
>> depending upon the situation, so I doubt that much could be done even
>> with a long series of steps to take, with no way of confirming what you
>> have done.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Tim Ford
>>
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