One word of caution here. I looked as carefully as I could at the specs provided on the web site. This thing supports NTSC (analog) and ATSC (digital) tuning which is great. However, nowhere does it say that it contains a QAM tuner. Therefore, if you wish to watch a cable channel whose frequency is not one which is an over-the-air channel, you will not be able to watch that channel.
Don Roberts ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Pattison" <s...@internode.on.net> To: "Access L" <acces...@access-l.com>; "PC Audio" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:40 AM Subject: Fwd: Another way to Watch TV From: Baracco, Andrew W andrew.bara...@va.gov To: blindt...@yahoogroups.com This came from the Handiham newsletter. This may be something we could use. TV tuner works with screenreader This comes to us from Luella, KE0RF, via Ken, KB3LLA. It was posted on the AccessComp list at Yahoo Groups. This is great information from Steven Clark of Kansas City. Hi, I got a new toy delivered today. It is also the first item I bought from www.woot.com, and doubt it will be the last. I got a Sabrent USB 2.0 Digital HDTV Tuner. This thing is great from what I've found so far. It turns your computer into a TV. It receives those cool new HD channels that are out there floating around in Kansas City and other cities as well. It comes with a small HD antenna that screws onto the device. The tuner plugs into a USB 2.0 port and will not work with USB 1.0. I've found it to be very easy to use with Window-Eyes. After installing the software and the USB hardware, it will ask to scan channels. From what I understand it will work with digital cable but since we just have standard cable, nothing to try out there. So I chose to have it scan using the antenna for channels and it found 22. A list of channels is presented in a grid format with the station letters and channel in each grid entry. It was very simple to arrow around through the channels and find the one I wanted. Once I was on the channel I wanted to watch, I pressed the context key and then enter on the first item which Window-Eyes told me is play. I knew that Nova on KCPT is described and after it started playing that channel, I pressed the context key again and went down to the audio settings. The first selection was checked and I found another audio choice below. I selected the second choice, pressed enter and I heard the TV show and the described show in my left ear. Yeah, I'm using headphones, but it sounds just as good through the built in speakers on my netbook. You can also set the audio to only be on the left or right for anything you are watching. It comes with a remote and the buttons are setup in a grid. Ruthie made me an Excel spreadsheet with what each button does. I'm very happy with this purchase and am happy to find everything so accessible. I haven't tried recording anything yet, but I did find in the options menu one can select to record both video and audio or just audio. The options menu works fine with Window-Eyes as well. I bought this great device for $29 from www.woot.com, and while shopping around to get a second one for Ruthie, I've seen them selling for about $39 or so plus shipping. Editor's note: Woot.com sells items out quickly, so you probably won't be lucky enough to locate one there, but your dedicated Handiham staff searched and found them at TigerDirect for under $40: http://tinyurl.com/mq3zps Regards Steve Email: s...@internode.on.net MSN Messenger: internetuser...@hotmail.com Skype: steve1963 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
