[access-uk] Re: Audio Description on NTL

  • From: "roger south" <roger.south@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 15:39:46 -0000

Hi David et al

A friend has the NTL cable system and is currently receiving AD on BBC1 and BBC2 at least. He may be getting it on other BBC channels but I'm not sure about that. Getting this information from NTL was unbelievably hard as almost all members of the help section had no knowledge at all of it. But being a bit of a persistent so and so he finally succeeded. A rocky road lay ahead. He got sighted help to go through the menu system but it still didn't work. Finally he called out an engineer who said he didn't have the correct remote hand set. So he now has 2 for his control box as the new one has so many buttons on it he gets lost navigating it.

What he was not told was that the usual BBC channels he uses are in the very low numbers, mostly single figures but the AD channels are in the nine hundred series channel numbers. BBC1 is either 916 or 926 I believe. Whether it is regional I've no idea but the engineer led him to understand it was national. But with the usual misinformation from NTL who knows for sure.

Roger


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----- Original Message ----- From: "David Russell" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Access-Uk@Freelists. Org" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 2:41 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Audio Description on NTL



Hi People,

I have heard rumours recently that NTL are shortly to start broadcasting
audio description. Not sure whether this is on Sky channels or terrestrial
channels, nor do I know whether it is in all regions or only in selected
areas. I have phoned NTL but the person I spoke to knew nothing about this.


If anyone has any info, I would love to know about it.

David

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