Hi Can I just have this clarified to make myself 100% sure please?If I buy a TV with either built-in freeview or an external box, and the TV is AD compatible, then I will be able to access audio description? I do not need to be connected to a Sky box to access AD if I have Freeview?
This is how I understand it.This morning I went to Currys, thinking they would be able to help. I don't expect them to know everything about every TV they have, but I assumed they'd know what AD is given that they are a huge TV retailer.
I asked one of the assistants and he said he knew what I was after. He then disappeared and reappeared after a minute, saying he would have to go and ask "The big boss", So clearly he did not know what I was after.
The "Big boss", Arrived after about 10 minutes and proceededto tell me that to get audio description I had to contact the RNIB and download it from them and that was the only way to get AD. After that I knew it was going to be a long morning! I explained this wasn't the case and he seemed quite amazed that such a thing existed in TVs. He then said if I picked out some sets they would try them. I picked out an LG and a couple of Samsungs and he proceeded to open the box of a rather cheap Digitrex and spend 10 minutes reading the manual. Then he decided to try the LG. It did not have it. I then asked him to try the Samsungs and he proceeded to try another Digitrex. Clearly a make they are trying hard to shift. He eventually tried one of the Samsungs but it did not have it. I was about to ask him to try the remaining two when he told me I would not get it in Currys and he was sorry he couldn't help me. I interpreted this as go away. So I did.
He seemed clueless and unprepared to provide the assistance I expected off such a store.
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