[access-uk] Re: Freeview Audio Description
- From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 22:28:08 -0000
Hi Jim,
How are you playing back your recordings? If you don't use DigiTV's own
media player, you won't hear the Audio Description. You can't for example,
play back in Winamp and get AD.
Live pause does indeed work with radio, certainly here anyway. Which
version of DigiTV are you running? If you don't have 3.11, go get it,
now!!! <Smile>.
All the best
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Jim O'Sullivan
Sent: 06 December 2004 21:48
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Freeview Audio Description
Hi
I installed this DigiTV (PCI version) a couple of days ago.
I was very impressed with the ease of installation and setup.
I use JFW 5.1 and everything was accessible.
I was most impressed with being able to access the EPG and, although it
wasn't quite as straight forward as described in the manual, it was not so
difficult to use this.
This EPG 7 day listing is one of the interfaces to the record facility.
I was able to set up timer recordings.
The main thing I have found fault with is that so far I have not been able
to get it to record the audio description of the selected programme although
I have ticked the box that says record audio description in the settings.
The other thing that seems not to be so easy to access is the information
displayed about the current program and also the teletext is not so easy to
make use of. I have been able to find some of this with the Jaws cursor but
it isn't that interesting anyway.
One of the features the DigiTV boasts about is being able to pause a live TV
programme, for instance when somebody rings the door bell. When in pause
the hard disk is used to store the programme temporarily so that you can
resume it as you wish, dependent only on your disk drive capacity.
This feature, however, does nhot appear to work for the radio channels.
I have been using the Net gem for a year now.
In comparison the DigiTV gives you better acces and control of the
interface. The obvious disadvantage is that you have to have a PC switched
on and using a good deal of its resources to process all of this.
It is possible to use both and they both claim that they have a loop through
aerial so that you can daisy chainmore than one receiver off of an aerial
feed.
I found this only worked when feeding the main aerial into the Netgem and
then connecting the aerial out of the Netgem to the Nebula DigiTV card on
the PC
The other big plus about the Nebula DigiTV for me is its compactness. That
is why I chose the PCI model ahead of the USB one.
It is fully contained within my PC and adds no additional cabling, apart
from the aerial, to my over clusterreed desktop/fllor.
The DigiTV also comes with a remote handset which I have notyet
investigated.
The documentation says this is a "one4all" handset and you can set it up to
work with other home entertainment units.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Steve Nutt
Sent: 05 December 2004 18:21
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Freeview Audio Description
Hi Darren,
Take a look at http://www.nebula-electronics.com. They were the first to
bring audio description to market at all, but the tuners are computer
peripherals. They do a USB Freeview box and a PCI card for the computer,
both of which support Audio Description.
HATH
All the best
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Darran Ross
Sent: 28 November 2004 19:37
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Freeview Audio Description
Thanks for this, but I was wondering about other boxes and not just the
Netgem.
For example, if I buy a Thompson or Humax model will I still be able to pick
up audio description?
Regards.
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