Well, with TV, if you have a satellite dish or cable, you already have the 
box more than likely because they've been switching to digital for a long 
time now so what ever accessibility is or isn't there now is what you'll 
get. Personally with the garbage that's on TV these days, all I need is to 
change channels and turn it on and off so I can watch auto racing, the rest 
of the features I don't even know about. My DVR comes in handy too and I can 
manage to get my way around that. If you have cable though, especially 
digital cable, and if you have a satellite dish, you're there and won't be 
changing anything. We have the dish here. For broadcast radio, I'll take 
satellite radio there too. I never listen to broadcast radio anymore at all.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: FYI Fw: TH-F6A


> Pat, as blind hams, we all have to find work arounds, but what if there is
> no
> work around for the functions we want to use?  Electronics is becoming 
> less
> and less accessible to us.  What about the impending change of all TV
> signals to digital.  Granted, we will all have converters if we need them,
> but what if we can't use them?  What if we can't do any more than turn 
> them
> off and on or change channels?  The government is forcing this down
> everyone's throats with little to no thought to how it will effect the 
> blind
> in terms of accessibility.  Sure if you are a rabbit ear user you will get
> 40
> dollars towards a converter, but again, how will that help a blind person 
> if
> it is not accessible?  I think since the government is insisting on this
> change without sound reasoning behind it, the government should pay all
> costs.
> Harvey
>