[access-uk] Re: Audio Description
- From: Jackie Cairns <jackie.cairns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:23:11 +0000
Hi Barbara
If what you buy has AD, then you will receive it. Watch the wording
"compatible", because while it means you can get it with a source transmitting
it, it doesn't follow the device has it built-in. So just be careful of the
wording.
Jackie Cairns
Braille Specialist
Email: jackie.cairns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sight and Sound Technology Ltd
Welton House North Wing
Summerhouse Road
Moulton Park
Northampton
NN3 6WD
Tel: 01604 798024
Mob: 07887 883815
www.sightandsound.co.uk
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Barbara Wilson
Sent: 31 December 2009 14:58
To: Access-UK
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Audio Description
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 proceeded to 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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