From his original message, it appears that he is not a RFB&D member nor does
he appear to have any interest in being so.  I am not surprised at RFB&D's
pricing though.

Pratik


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John McCann
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 9:12 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] digital players

Yes Lynn, you've got that right. Of course, assuming that being able to read

RFB&D books is important to him, even with incurring the cost of shipping 
the unit to RFB&D for the user key installation, Bill's way ahead 
financially, although I can't imagine that RFB&D will be too happy to have 
their nose rubbed in the fact that he was able to acquire the unit directly 
from telex in the first place.

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynn Evans" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] digital players


> My understanding is RF&D uses a special coding for their digital 
> recordings.
> A person must send the player in to RFB&D to have them place the code onto
> the player you want to use.
>
> Please correct me listers if I have this incorrect.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Poehlman" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 7:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] digital players
>
>
> : does it play rfbd stuff?
> :
> : On Mar 30, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Sun Sounds of Arizona wrote:
> :
> : I read with interest the discussion of the Viktor reader and digital/
> : daisy
> : playback in general.  I discovered something I wanted to share with this
> : list.
> :
> : In researching the Viktor on the RFB&D web site, I noticed that they
> : offered
> : other digital devices as well.  The one that interested me personally
> : the
> : most was the Telex Professor.  It isn't a pocket portable, but seemed
> : like a
> : very useful and comprehensive machine.  I was dismayed to see though
> : that
> : RFB&D wanted $349 for it.  Then you add in the joining fee, and the
> : first
> : year fee, and you are looking at a cost of $450.  So, I decided to
> : check out
> : the machine from the Telex website.  What to my surprise ... they had
> : the
> : Professor, plus three other such machines available.  Here's the part
> : that
> : makes me angry.  Telex only charges $249 for the Professor and there
> : is no
> : overhead fees.  When I called Telex, I was informed that although
> : Telex is
> : normally a wholesaler and doesn't generally do retail sales. they
> : make an
> : exception in the case of their "talking book" machines.  She sold me the
> : machine, no muss no fuss, I got it a week later.  The gouging price
> : of RFB&D
> : really steams me not to mention there over zealous copyright protection
> : scheme, they should be ashamed.
> :
> : Now, for those who care:  I have been using this machine for a week.
> : What a
> : great machine it is!  It plays DAISY discs, MP3 disks, commercial audio
> : Cd's, NLS cassettes, and commercial stereo cassettes.  The extra
> : thing that
> : attracted me though was the totally accessible A M FM stereo radio.  Not
> : only can you directly tune to any frequency, and also scan the band,
> : but if
> : you aren't sure what you are listening to, you can push a button and it
> : tells you what frequency you are currently on. (neat)  It also remembers
> : where you left off on both digital, daisy, and commercial
> : recordings.  Just
> : like in other players, you can set lots of book marks in DAISY and MP3
> : material, and pre-sets for the radio stations. It has a sleep timer
> : and 10
> : hours CD play time on it's rechargeable battery pack.  Every button is
> : tactile marked, and there are tones and voice prompts as you use the
> : features as well.  I must admit, I haven't gotten this excited about a
> : machine in a long time.  No, it isn't a pocket portable so isn't any
> : good on
> : a bus ride, but it is as portable as any medium sized boom box so is
> : great
> : around the house and yard.  Plus it has nice speakers so I don't have
> : to use
> : headphones if I'd rather not.
> :
> : Just thought I'd share in case someone is interested.
> :
> : Bill
> :
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