[access-uk] Re: Portset.
- From: "Peter Beasley" <p.beasley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 14:37:09 -0000
Wendyif you don't have an actual television you don't need a licence.
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From: "Wendy Sharpe" <w.sharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 1:02 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Portset.
Ray
I would certainly never have bought one at full price, and the only thing I
lack is a DVD player, but I have now sussed out how to play DVD's on the PC
using Power DVD.
I have always thought that Portset's prices were way over the top. The
media centre does also have the facility to record programmes, but there is
no way to transfer recordings from its internal disk or whatever it uses to
another hard drive, on the PC for example.
Frankly, I was seriously thinking about giving up TV altogether when we
finally switch over, as I refuse to have a TV and pay a licence for
something I can't see. I'm a mean person, I know, but there is nobody else
here who wants to watch telly.
I got my media centre for £300, which I thought was a bargain, and it is a
very nice piece of kit, but the original price is far too high, and even
with competition from anything else which can talk, Portset never seem to
drop their prices.
Wendy
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Ray's Home
Sent: 02 December 2007 12:51
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Portset.
Sorry, but I don't feel obliged to be overly-polite on this one. The
price ranging up to near a thousand quid has to be one of the all-time
rip-offs, even considering the realities of access tech. I really
don't know why anyone with a PC would even consider it, and that by
definition, is pretty well everyone on a list such as this one.
You can hardly blame the guy for wanting to hold on to the miche
market he had with the original teletext reciever, but times have
moved on since then, I'm glad to say.
Still, as I've said to the original enquirer off-list, I can hardly
criticise you if you really want to spend money in this way, but
frankly, many wouldn't.
Cheers,
From Ray
I can be contacted off-list at:
mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
Gordon Keen
Strange, safari went straight to it and I've just browsed through the
models available.
World wide weirdness!
Cheers
G
From glorious Devon, England.
On 2 Dec 2007, at 12:26, David W Wood wrote:
Hi Gordon - this link gives:
This page is not available
David
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of
Gordon Keen
Sent: 02 December 2007 12:16
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Gordon Keen
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Portset.
Hi
For alternatives check out:
http://www.tvhelp.org.uk/audes/equipment.index.html
Hopefully competition will force down prices in the not too distant
future.
Cheers
G
From glorious Devon, England.
On 2 Dec 2007, at 11:03, Jackie Cairns wrote:
My only comment, and please feel free to jump on me if you want
folks (though not literally) (smile), is that it's a rip-off for
£620 or
whatever it costs. I know it speaks, but £620 for that? Phew!
I loved their Talking Teletext unit when I had mine, but that was
when there wasn't so much information available elsewhere. Certain
Freeview
boxes, while they don't provide speech navigation, do offer Audio
Description, and there are also lots of DAISY players on the market
to tap
into. I just think it's well OTT.
Jackie
----- Original Message -----
From: sue morgan <mailto:sue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 12:35 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Portset.
Hi list.
I've been reading about the Portset Accessible Freeview
Receiver and I'm quite interested in it. I'm wondering if anyone on
this
list has one, or knows anything about them. I've listened to the
audio demo
on the Portset website and it seems very accessible.
Any feedback would be grate as I'd love to have an
accessible freeview receiver.
Sue.
e-mail sue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
mobile 07968825286
msn sue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
skype suemorgan1006
Gordon Keen
gordonkeen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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