[Electronics-talk] SAP channel

[Tracy Carcione]

It seems to me that whether or not one gets SAP not only depends on having 
the button, but also on having the provider sending SAP.
I live in northern New Jersey, and get 3 PBS stations.  One used to play the 
SAP, but stopped.  One does play the SAP. and one uses the SAP for radio for 
the blind, reading newspapers and such.
We also used to get SAP on Turner Classic Movies, but have not for a long 
time, even on movies I know have it.
When we ask our cable company about it, they have no idea what we're talking 
about, though usually their customer service is excellent.

So, for me, if I was choosing a new TV provider, I'd want to know if they 
send the SAP signal.  But that may be darned hard to find out.
Tracy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mariea Harris" <mariea1979 at gmail.com>
To: <Electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 4:48 PM
Subject: [Electronics-talk] dish or direct TV?


> When we were discussing audio description and providers, someone mentioned 
> to not get either dish or direct TV due to a button being hard to locate. 
> We’re considering getting rid of Time Warner and going with either one of 
> these or possibly aT&T Uverse, even though we tried it over a year ago for 
> 2 weeks and had horrible customer service support. I want to compare 
> pricing, but don’t want to get the one that was mentioned if it will be 
> hard to turn on SAP. So, whoever mentioned that issue with the button, 
> please let me know which company it was with so I can avoid it. We have no 
> sighted help around, so we need to be able to do it ourselves.
>
> Mariea and Valiant
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