Now you're just dreaming!<br><br><br>Hmm. It would be a good thing to have a voice synthesizer that could speak the channel number while you are searching for anything good.<br><br>For that matter, a voice synth to read out the show listings from the tv guide channel (I have cable) would be very useful.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:57 PM, John Heim <<a href="mailto:jheim@math.wisc.edu">jheim@math.wisc.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ah! Now I'm getting excited. This could actually end up being way better<br>
than my old system. Hey, maybe somebody makes a converter box that talks.<br>
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Subject: Re: [ale] Recording TV shows?<br>
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> John,<br>
> I would think that the digital tuner box would fit between your antennae<br>
> and<br>
> the VCR so your current setup won't change.<br>
> The digital broadcast will not affect cable as is it not over the air.<br>
> The one converter I have looked at is from Best Buy and it has stereo<br>
> audio<br>
> out ports.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8624081&type=product&id=1199495190393" target="_blank">http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8624081&type=product&id=1199495190393</a><br>
><br>
> Disclaimer: I pretty much despise Best Buy (and Wal Mart - another source<br>
> for the $60 converter) and the Radio Shack version are not stereo sound<br>
> but<br>
> mono only.<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:05 PM, John Heim <<a href="mailto:jheim@math.wisc.edu">jheim@math.wisc.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I'm blind and i want to record just the audio for certain TV shows. Right<br>
>> now, I have a cable running from the audio-out on my VCR to the line-in<br>
>> on<br>
>> the sound card of my linux box. I then use sox & oggenc to record the<br>
>> shows<br>
>> in ogg format.<br>
>><br>
>> But in February 2008, this ain't gonna work because my VCR tuner won't<br>
>> work.<br>
>> I suppose I could by a converter box but that seems to be adding more<br>
>> complexity to a system that is already rather unwieldy.<br>
>><br>
>> Is there a simpler way? Can I get a digital TV tuner that connects<br>
>> directly<br>
>> to a USB port? Or maybe a converter box with an audio out?<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Maybe I'm asking for the impossible. I thought about simply getting a TV<br>
>> tuner card for inside the computer but I thought it would be impossible<br>
>> for<br>
>> a blind guy to configure. It would have to have a CUI setup program.<br>
>> Linux<br>
>> is great for using text files and command line programs. But for a TV<br>
>> card?<br>
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>><br>
>><br>
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