Well, CNN is on most of the day or the weather channel.  I don't know if
he can get any premiums, but he also has a regular TV in that shop and a
VCR.  I don't know what gave him the idea of hooking the computer up for
TV.





On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Mike Freeman wrote:

>     Aside from CNN, the Weather Channel, Discovery, TLC and the History
> Chanel (and maybe ESPN and ESPN2), I can't imagine there being anything
> on television worth designing packages to watch it via the computer.
> (grin) You'd think watching it on the modulated milbkbottle would be bad
> enough! (grin)
>
> Mike < K 7 U I J >
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 8:17 PM
> Subject: Re: sorry to be a pain in the ...
>
>
> > You know why they wanted to have Windows anyway was because the
> sighted
> > folks didn't want to learn any of the commands.  They would just
> assume
> > point and click.  Although I do know a few sighted people who use the
> > keystrokes that they could use with a mouse it is just what I mean a
> few
> > and far and few in between.  In fact, last summer I surprised a friend
> of
> > mine at a radio shop where they had a computer set up with not only
> > Motorola RSS that is Windows based, but they hooked the computer up so
> > they could watch TV via the computer.  Now, I guess that on the screen
> > there is a picture of a remote control like you would see on a regular
> > TV.  All of the times I saw them change channels or whatever they used
> the
> > mouse, but I surprised them when I used page up and down and the
> numbers
> > to change channels.  They were surprised that I was able to get into
> the
> > menu and to shut the TV ap out.  I didn't have JFW there so the
> keyboard
> > strokes will work without a screen reader.  The person who has this
> set up
> > mainly has it tuned to CNN or the weather channel, but I think that
> with
> > such a program you can have presets as well.  It would be interesting
> to
> > see how well this would work with JFW.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Rick Lewis wrote:
> >
> > > Mike,
> > > Laziness is also an issue here. Most sighted folks would rather
> point and
> > > click, not think and use arrows, (or alt-arrows in IE.)
> > > We blind guys aren't much different, I suppose, but frankly, it
> takes a
> > > greater level of efficiency and awareness to effectively use our
> software.
> > > For both the blind and sighted, those who expect to learn little are
> in
> > > danger of being left out in the cold, but the blind spectator will
> freeze
> > > first.
> > > We just have a bigger learning curve.
> > > And the steps we take for granted are ones that sighted folks
> wouldn't
> > > bother with.
> > > In fact, computers didn't even catch on with the general public
> until the
> > > learning curve was decreased.
> > > --Rick
> > >
> >
>