[Electronics-talk] Another way to Watch TV

[dennis]

do you have to hook a cable into it?
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> 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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>> 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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