[Electronics-talk] Another way to Watch TV

[Kevin Wassmer]

I might get one of theses.


Cause its been 18 days
Since I first held you
But to me it feels just like
It feels like a lifetime
I'm trying hard to re-arrange
Some say its the hardest thing to do
But that's another 18 days
Without you..
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From: "dennis" <dennisl1982 at gmail.com>
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> do you have to hook a cable into it?
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> From: "Brett Boyer" <bboyer202 at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:55 AM
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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
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Baracco, Andrew W" <Andrew.Baracco at va.gov>
>> To: <blindtech at yahoogroups.com>
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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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