[Electronics-talk] Another way to Watch TV

[Brett Boyer]

Wow! This is incredible! I thought or hoped a product like this would be out 
there but...
Great looking out!
I can't wait to read more about this little product.
thanks for the tip
bb

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From: "Baracco, Andrew W" <Andrew.Baracco at va.gov>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:43 AM
Subject: [Electronics-talk] Another way to Watch TV


> This came from the Handiham newsletter.
>
> This may be something we could use.
>
> TV tuner works with screenreader
>
> This comes to us from Luella, KE0RF, via Ken, KB3LLA. It was posted
> on the AccessComp list at Yahoo Groups. This is great information
> from  Steven Clark of Kansas City.
>
> Hi, I got a new toy delivered today. It is also the first item I
> bought from www.woot.com, and doubt it will be the last. I got a
> Sabrent USB 2.0 Digital HDTV Tuner. This thing is great from what
> I've found so far. It turns your computer into a TV. It receives
> those cool new HD channels that are out there floating around in
> Kansas City and other cities as well.
>
> It comes with a small HD antenna that screws onto the device. The
> tuner plugs into a USB 2.0 port and will not work with USB 1.0. I've
> found it to be very easy to use with Window-Eyes. After installing
> the software and the USB hardware, it will ask to scan channels. From
> what I understand it will work with digital cable but since we just
> have standard cable, nothing to try out there. So I chose to have it
> scan using the antenna for channels and it found 22.
>
> A list of channels is presented in a grid format with the station
> letters and channel in each grid entry. It was very simple to arrow
> around through the channels and find the one I wanted. Once I was on
> the channel I wanted to watch, I pressed the context key and then
> enter on the first item which Window-Eyes told me is play.
>
> I knew that Nova on KCPT is described and after it started playing
> that channel, I pressed the context key again and went down to the
> audio settings. The first selection was checked and I found another
> audio choice below. I selected the second choice, pressed enter and I
> heard the TV show and the described show in my left ear. Yeah, I'm
> using headphones, but it sounds just as good through the built in
> speakers on my netbook.
>
> You can also set the audio to only be on the left or right for
> anything you are watching.
>
> It comes with a remote and the buttons are setup in a grid. Ruthie
> made me an Excel spreadsheet with what each button does.
>
> I'm very happy with this purchase and am happy to find everything so
> accessible. I haven't tried recording anything yet, but I did find in
> the options menu one can select to record both video and audio or
> just audio. The options menu works fine with Window-Eyes as well.
>
> I bought this great device for $29 from www.woot.com, and while
> shopping around to get a second one for Ruthie, I've seen them
> selling for about $39 or so plus shipping.
>
> Editor's note: Woot.com sells items out quickly, so you probably
> won't be lucky enough to locate one there, but your dedicated
> Handiham staff searched and found them at TigerDirect for under $40:
> http://tinyurl.com/mq3zps
>
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