Jackie. Glad someone is as bad as me for multiple eventing!Like you I use Sky for my main viewing, however have the Panasonic set upstairs. The audio quality is beautiful and once you learn your way around the menus you can get a nice balance between mainstream audio and AD.
Even listening to freeview radio the sound is very good!As David says a further useful facility is the ability to determine whether AD is on speakers and headphones or one or the other.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie Cairns" <cairnsplace@xxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:41 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Freeview set top boxes
Hi DavidThanks very much for the useful update. I don't need another box at the moment because I use Sky which has AD turned on, and the Netgem which is still functioning well. I've also got another ordinary box that I picked up in a sale before our Dixons closed down some years ago. It doesn't have AD, but is useful for occasions like last night, when I needed to have the Champions League on every format I could find. So I had Sky showing the Roma versus Real Madrid game, the Netgem on Scottish TV showing the Liverpool game (still smiling for that one,) and the spare Freeview box on ITV 4 for the Olympiarkos versus Chelsea game. Better not forget Five Live on the radio either ... yeah I know, I'm hopeless (smile.)You say you have a TV with Freeview carrying AD built-in? I know there are a lot of TVs now with the AD facility incorporated, but we haven't got that far yet as I'm hoping our current Sony continues to plod for a while.Thanks for that though. Jackie Email: cairnsplace@xxxxxxx Skype Name: Cairnsplace----- Original Message ----- From: "David Russell" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>To: "Access-Uk@Freelists. Org" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:22 AM Subject: [access-uk] Freeview set top boxesHi all, Continuing the set top box saga, I now have my Logik Freeview box which I ordered from Currys on sunday and it is fitted and working well. You canset the box to beep every time a key is pressed, but I don't think it beepswhen it finds a channel broadcasting audio description. I would not have thought that was worth another twenty pounds. I purchased the Logik for my upstairs tv which only has the basic fivechannels. Downstairs I now have a Panasonic Viera 26 inch set and this one has a freeview box built in, which does have audio description unlike mostset top boxes. also, you can set this one to have the AD on speakers orheadphones or both or neither. this is a good idea if someone in the roomdoes not want to listen to the AD track. David ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
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