[access-uk] Re: Looking For Advice On DVD Players

  • From: "Clare Burman" <c.burman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 23:14:37 +0100

Caroline

DVD players themselves can be totally accessible, it is the fact that menus for DVDs differ that produces the problem..The special features are the most difficult to locate without sighted assistance, but when it comes to just playing the disc that is easy, just press play. Discs with more than one episode for example with usually have a way of choosing a particular episode from the menu, but in most cases you can just press the number keys on your remote which correspond to each episode. If not though, when you press play for the first time on the opening menu, the disc will play right through from beginning to end, so you can track skip through to the end of the first episode where it will usually move on to the next one. This can be laborious but it is by no means impossible to find what you want.

My DVD player has a language button on it's remote, which is very handy. It means you can alternate through the language settings without having to access the menu. I use this mainly for switching to the commentary tracks on my discs.

Don't be disheartened. It may take some fiddling around, but its still very possible to access DVDs.

Hope this helps
Clare

----- Original Message ----- From: "Caroline Ford" <caroline@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 9:51 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Looking For Advice On DVD Players



Hello Tony,

Thanks for your reply.

It sounds as if I'm not going to be lucky to find an accessible DVD player
then.  Have you had any luck at all in playing DVD's without sighted help,
or is everything totally inaccessible?  By the sounds of it, a menu must
appear on the screen whenever you put a DVD into the drive, and this menu
can be totally different for each disk you try to play.  Is this correct?
So there isn't anything as simple as a play button on DVD remotes as there
is on remotes for VCR's?

I'd be interested to know if anyone else has found a way to play DVD's
independently.  I know it can be done on the PC, but when using a player
hooked up to the TV, it doesn't sound promising.

Thanks,

Caroline.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony PEARCE" <pearcet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Looking For Advice On DVD Players
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 20:10:59 +0100

Hello,
I have not found a dvd player that is accessable without sightted help, as
for the other questions some models can store the possition of the last 10
or so dvds you have played and when you put the dvd in again it will start
at the point that it finnished at when you took it out, some will only
remember where you were last time you watched it if you do not take the dvd
out of the machine and some will start from the beginning every time you
turn on the machine. Dvds all seem to play in differant ways some will play
through from beginning to end once you have started them and others will
need restarting from the menu when you want to play a differant programme.
Best wishes, Tony Pearce.



----- Original Message ----- From: "Caroline Ford" <caroline@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 5:46 PM Subject: [access-uk] Looking For Advice On DVD Players


Hello,

I am interested in getting a DVD player to hook up to our TV and would
like
to know if anybody who already has one has any particular recommendations
for accessible models. Is it possible to play DVD's without being able to
see the TV screen. Also, if you stop a disk and want to resume it in the
same place at a later date, is there any accessible way of doing this?
And
finally, is the method of playing DVD's always standard, or does it vary
from one DVD to another, depending on the way the disk has been
constructed?


Thanks,

Caroline.
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