[vicsireland] Freeview & AD
- From: "Tony Sweeney" <tonysweeney1@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "vics" <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 15:55:22 +0100
Hi All,
I have Free-To-Air or as it is called in the UK Freeview and wonder if
anyone has heard of Audio-Description for same?
See an email below from the access-ukmailing list.
Tony.
> Hello everyone
>
> I attended a reception at Eaton Park today, Lord Grosvenor's place in
> Chester put on by RNIB, and they did a general talk about the services
> available now from Liverpool, which have been extended from the time I
> last
> heard about them, libraries, a guy who wanted to raise RNIB's fundraising
> activities in Chester and Cheshire, but of real concern to me was the
> information given out about the boxes capable of audiodescription on
> freeview. The lady concerned, Anna Jones, said that you could only get
> these through RNIB or Dixons.
>
> I know this to be wrong, as I did a look around in the archives, and
> Currys
> was mentioned as stocking AD enabled boxes. I am therefore under the
> impression that RNIB think there are only a certain number of them about
> when the membership's knowledge of these on this list is greater, getting
> them from various places.
>
> I'd like to know where I could get the most updated information on model
> numbers of freeview boxes with AD. I'm sure there are lots more out there
> than RNIB are letting on there are, and I'd like to do something about it,
> although I myself, use Sky to receive audiodescription. Any help and
> information would be appreciated on or off list. Otherwise, I would have
> to
> trawl through over 80 separate screens of freeeview related information,
> some of which will no doubt not be related to AD but other aspects of the
> service and questions, which I don't need at the moment.
>
> Alex
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