peter hope they get it installed soon keep calling them.
----- Original Message -----
From: <pmdonahue2@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <blindcordcutters@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2021 5:49 PM
Subject: [blindcordcutters] Re: New member/intro
Hello Chris,
As moderator let me welcome you to the list. It's great to see some
activity up here. We're in the mids of cutting our cord as well. Those
efforts were derailed buy failing central air conditioning. We have no
idea when our central unit will be fixed. I bought three units from Conn's
home Plus last Wednesday. Their delivery personnel told us they would be
installed last Friday or Saturday. No one showed up. We're currently
scheduled for installation on September 1st. With appliances such as air
conditioning we find such a staggered installation schedule unexceptable
especially in South Texas. Did those fools think it's winter and not summer?
Now back to our regularly scheduled discussions. We used Roku with
our first hd tv. Like you we found the quality of the speech and the
accessibility horrible. That tv died last year and has been replaced with a
Sony which includes Google Assistant. We also have Apple TV and the
Microsoft Xbox. Once things with our air conditioning and our electric bill
are resolved and our Xbox is repaired we plan to buy the Amazon Fire Stick.
One of our local tv stations has an app that will run on the Fire Stick. It
will be great discovering what other goodies the Amazon Fire Stick offers
users. Welcome aboard.
Peter Donahue
Moderator
-----Original Message-----
From: blindcordcutters-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blindcordcutters-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Chris Gilland
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2021 4:32 PM
To: blindcordcutters@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blindcordcutters] New member/intro
Hello everyone, my name is Chris, and since last June, my whole family has
been part of the cord cutter trend.
Presently, I personally have a few Apple TVs connected to various rooms in
my upstairs area, One of which is connected to a complete surroundsound
Sonos home theater system. I also have an AT&T TV android box, and also a
Toshiba Amazon fire TV. (Not the Amazon fire stick, I'm talking about the
actual television itself).
I do have a Roku, although it isn't hooked up, and frankly has just been
sitting in a drawer for the last, God knows how long. I would gladly send it
to someone who could use it, if I could find the darn thing, but I don't
even think it works anymore. Even if it did, I find the text to speech voice
in the thing to be absolutely dreadful! Not to mention, at least with the
version of Roku I have, the built-in accessibility leaves a lot to be
desired. It would be almost the equivalent of using narrator on windows XP
back in the days. It's horrible! Again though, this is just my opinion. So
take it with a grain of salt. I do use a lot of the services like YouTube,
Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Sero's described video content, etc. I do often rent
movies as well as purchase content from the iTunes store, and I also
sometimes will do the same with Google movies and TV. I own both an iPhone
12 pro max, as well as an android pixel three XL.
I also have an iPad mini fifth generation. not the most up-to-date by any
means, I know, but it definitely does what I need to do.
Finally, I am both an advanced Windows user both with nvda, and also am Jaws
certified. finally, I also do you have a 2020 13 inch Mac book air.
I'm glad to be a part of this list, and look forward to learning a lot from
all of you.
Have a fantastic rest of your day.
Chris.
