[nabs-l] Questions About Accessing/Watching Television

[frandi.galindo at gmail.com]

Good morning keri
There is an app for the iPhone called whats on wich was created by comcast. 
With this app you are able to look at the tv guide for any indevidual 
channel comcast offers, change your channel with the tap of a button, set 
reminders for your favorite shows, and many other things.  As for the on 
demand thing, there is another app by comcast called tv go.  You can watch 
movies, tv shows, and many other things.  Unfortunately you must have the 
network on your package that your show has.  For example, if you wanted to 
watch Sex and the City, you would have to have
HPO, and if you wanted to watch American idol, you would have to have fox. 
You must have an account with comcast, and an online ID and password from 
them.Both of these apps I find to be completely accessible.  There are other 
tv guide apps out their, but they are not as good.  Some shows are 
discriptive like CSI and criminal minds.  Unfortunatly, I am not sure how to 
activate such features.  Each telivision is different.  Hope this helps.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Kerri Kosten
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 8:14 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: [nabs-l] Questions About Accessing/Watching Television

Hi All:

When I was younger, (many years ago) I used to watch TV all the time.
I loved and primarily watched shows on channels such as ABC Family,
MTV, and the CW (formerly the WB) so they had a lot of talking in them
so I could follow along with what was going on pretty well just by
listening to the context clues.
I would like to get back into watching television.
First, are popular television shows described? Could I go to a certain
setting or something on my TV and access an audio described version of
the shows?
For those of you who love and regularly watch TV, do you just listen
and try to use context clues to figure out what is going on or how do
you keep yourself interested in the show when there is usually so much
action and shows are very visual?
Also, being that I likely won't be home when the shows I want to watch
air, is there any way to access on demand through Exfinity/Comcast (my
cable provider)? I know sighted people can access on demand through
the menus on the remote control but of course neither my remote nor
Television have speech so I can't access the menus or anything like
that. For those of you who watch tv regularly, how do you get around
this?
Is there an app I could download on the Iphone or something to maybe
somehow control my TV using the Iphone to access the on demand menus?
I know these questions may sound weird, but I haven't really watched
TV in so long the times have sort of changed. Television seems to be a
huge thing for sighted people and I'd like to get back into watching
popular TV shows again. I know I can access TV listings through NFB
Newsline.
Thanks,
Kerri

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