[access-uk] Re: stand alone TV receiver

  • From: "Jackie Cairns" <cairnsplace@xxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:57:32 -0000

Yes it is a grey area, and has caused plenty of confusion to a cost to some. It doesn't affect me as we have a TV licence anyway. I know that the analogue TV sound receiver came with a disclaimer that you didn't need a TV licence, but that if you were running a video or some other device that was capable of capturing pictures, you had to fork out. 


Jackie
----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Page" <gpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 10:48 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: stand alone TV receiver
Jackie I have read somewhere that it is OK for a blind person to connect a freeview box or similar directly to a hi-fi providing the person does not have anything in the house capable of making use of the pictures i.e. a tv or, if the box can be connected to a PC, a PC monitor.
This is still a somewhat grey area though. If it were me though I would risk this approach.
for the price of the portset media centre you could buy a cheap TV and freeview box or a digital ready TV pay your half-price license and still save money! 

Cheers

Graham
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie Cairns" <cairnsplace@xxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 9:07 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: stand alone TV receiver



Hi David
The receiver your friend mentioned is, I believe, the old TV sound receiver that was once made by Clark and Smith. It is a small unit with six press-down buttons on the top that you tune to BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5. Actually we've still got one of those that gets brought out when Wimbledon is on TV every year, because I have to use every other digital source in the house to get the interactive services going in order to capture other courts.
Anyway, I don't know if this receiver is still available. I know Portset used to sell it, and perhaps Hagger Electronics too.
The digital equivalent is also manufactured by Portset, but it costs a lot more than the old analogue sound receiver. The Portset Freeview receiver costs about £600, and, so I understand, has a built-in video recorder. Their Digital Media Centre is even more expensive than that at around £900.
With the analogue receiver, you don't need a TV licence because it doesn't have a video or other equipment to run it. But I think it is different with the new digital products mentioned above. 

Hope this info is of some use.

Jackie
----- Original Message ----- From: "David W Wood" <g3yxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 8:50 PM
Subject: [access-uk] stand alone TV receiver



All:

please could you help someone on another list - his message as follows:


Hi All & Happy New Year to you all (any of you getting fed up of people
saying that yet?)
I'm trying to find out if anyone has any information about TV Tuners. RNIB used to sell a TV Tuner for blind people. Basically this was a small unit, 
similar in size to a portable radio, that broadcast TV programmes like a
radio - using audio, no picture.

A couple of people that I work with are looking at buying a TV and then
buying a freeview box to go with it so that they can get audio description. They haven't the money to by an LCD TV (especially the Sony Bravia), and, as they are blind and don't need to see the screen, I thought that a TV Tuner would be more suitable. Also, the TV Tuners meant that you didn't need a 
license to use them saving more money!
Does anyone know of a TV Tuner on the market? If not, has anyone any ideas 
on a good solution to a simple problem?
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