[Electronics-talk] audio described TV programming

[Dewey Bradley]

The PBs stations in Denver used to do it way back before the DTV, you just 
had to have a TV or VCR with the SAP service
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From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited at verizon.net>
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>
> The sad reality is that there is very little described audio programming 
> these days.  PBS offers the most audio described programming followed by a 
> few cable channels like Turner Movie Classics and Lifetime, but the major 
> over-the-air networks offer little or no described programming.  If they 
> use their SAP channel at all, it is usually to carry a foreign language 
> soundtrack.  The fault for this lies squarely with the blindness advocacy 
> organizations who have done little to force broadcasters to offer more 
> described programming.  We were promised that more described programming 
> would become available after the transition to digital TV, but this has 
> not happened.  Thanks to the efforts of deafness advocacy groups, the deaf 
> have tons of Closed Captioned programs to watch.  But we blind consumers 
> are still being left in the dark (pun intended) when it comes to described 
> audio programming.
>
> Gerald
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dewey Bradley" <deweyspr at mediacombb.net>
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>
>> The network also has to broadcast it.
>> I called my PBS station, they don't do it, even though when you look up 
>> the listing on news line, and it says this program is audeo described
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited at verizon.net>
>> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 2:26 PM
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>>
>>
>>>
>>> You most likely need sighted assistance to turn on the SAP channel from 
>>> the on-screen menus.  The SAP or Secondary Audio Program channel is 
>>> normally used buy broadcasters to carry audio-described or DVS 
>>> programming.  Some analog TV's used to have a dedicated button on the 
>>> remote to turn SAP on and off, but with digital TV's, you usually have 
>>> to turn it on and off from one of the set's built-in  on-screen menu. If 
>>> you use a cable box, you usually have to turn SAP on or off from one of 
>>> the box's on-screen menus.
>>>
>>> Gerald
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:24 AM
>>> Subject: [Electronics-talk] audio described TV programming
>>>
>>>
>>>> How does one access the audio description of a television program on 
>>>> digital
>>>> TV? Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> Sherri
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please check out the link below and help blind people in your local 
>>>> area
>>>> achieve their dreams by visiting
>>>> http://www.raceforindependence.org/goto/Sherri.Brun
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> Character is the side of yourself you choose to show the world. 
>>>> Integrity is
>>>> what you do, what you say and how you act when you think no one is 
>>>> paying
>>>> attention.
>>>> Sherri Brun
>>>> flmom2006 at gmail.com
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