No, it wasn't the converter, it was the hd tv itself.
And that hd tv was around $25 and, that was for a 37 inch.
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> Wasn't Sony supposed to introduce a system that would accomplish this?
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> I looked at the Bravea but, they are really on the expensive side.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin McCormick" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:17 AM
> Subject: Re: Better Access To TV Programming
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>> That is an interesting thought. It would take a couple of things
>> for this to come about. The crawls at the bottom of the screen
>> never appear as ASCII text in your television. They are just
>> pixels lit up to form letters and numbers by a character
>> generator at the television studio wherever that happens to be.
>> The last time it was something that a speech synthesizer could
>> handle was just before the data were fed in to the CG or
>> character generator.
>>
>> To easily cause a viewer to hear those data, it would be
>> necessary to either feed it in to a speech synthesizer at the
>> studio and send it out over the Second Audio Program or SAP
>> channel or send the data over something like the closed-caption
>> system. Regular viewers would see the CG graphics and viewers
>> with a special television would be able to hear a synthesized
>> voice read the text.
>>
>> To actually turn CG graphics in to speech would require
>> a full OCR program plus the speech synthesizer, basically a
>> fully-working computer inside your television, not just a couple
>> of chips. I don't know how much secondary capability was
>> designed in to the new NTSC digital video standard, but
>> hopefully, it also has a second audio channel and
>> closed-captionning.
>>
>> For those who aren't familiar with the old system, the
>> Closed-captions, VChip, and a few other control signals are sent
>> in the first 20 or so lines of a picture which is not normally
>> visible to viewers. Special codes used for automatic picture
>> color adjustment, time synchronization such as the "autoclock"
>> feature on your VCR, and a few other things such as descrambler
>> unlock codes in some pay TV systems are all crammed in to those
>> few scan lines.
>>
>> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
>> Systems Engineer
>> OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
>>
>> Bob Martin writes:
>>> About 15 years ago, I participated in a half day conference
> addressing=20
>>> how
>>> manufacturers and broadcasters could make TV more accessible to those
> of
>>> us
>>> who are blind. Among the suggestions I made is to install a chip
> which
>>> would read those crawlers at the bottom of the screen, those that
> give
>>> emergency and programming messages. To my knowledge, that isn't
>>> happening.
>>>
>>> Another grief I have is when they cut to commercials while presenting
> the
>>> stock market reporting graphics. I understand that it makes a nice
>>> transaction visually but leaves us hanging. Perhaps they think all
> of us
>>> don't earn enough to have money to invest.
>>>
>>> 73
>>> Bob Martin
>>>
>>> EchoLink Node - 55127
>>> Please visit http://www.wan-leatonks.net.
>>>
>>>
>>
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