John Carlisle said on 2011/01/12 at 12:11 am
Not really sure how many of these Freeview set top boxes have been sold but I have just bought one for my totally blind mother.
This was incredibly easy to set up straight out of the box and the talk through set up instructions were extremely clear.
The box itself is an excellent piece of kit and does exactly what was anticipated.
Yes there are a few issues with pronunciation but with the strange names of actors and programmes these days that is only to be expected.
Congratulations to Goodmans for this innovative piece of equipment. If more manufacturers follwed their lead then the world would be a more accessible and better place for us all.
geordiejill said on 12/01/2011 at 12:11 am
Well, I ordered mine about a week before it was due out and I got it earlier than expected. I'm not totally impressed with it. Maybe my issue is because I'm running it through an old style cathode tv, but when I try to change channel or do anything else with it, it often doesn't respond. I know you can programme it to workk when aiming the remote at the tv screen rather than the sensor, but I can't remember the make of my tv or the model. My previous freeview boxes did this automatically. I find the lack of response to button presses so annoying, so I hardly use it. I'm not a huge tv fan anyway admittedly. I'll have to see if it works better when I get a new tv. I think it's a great idea, but think the quality of speech is poor. Then again, I don't like the human sounding speech anyway, as my ears pick up on all the compression and sample changes and breakup in words.
Ken Reid said on 27/12/2010 at 4:35 pm
Don't imagine there are too many out there yet, as it was only launched a few months ago. But it is good to hear that it does what it is supposed to do.
Might tempt me back to watching television.
Now all we need is for the schedulers to broadcast something I might actually want to watch!
Ken