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Chris McMillan
Sep 23, 2015, 5:08:19 PM9/23/15
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McT records programmes which are then watched the next day or whenever.
Much of what I want to watch ends up being seen with the Sign Language
option which can't be turned off - nor has he ever seen an option telling
it NOT to record the sign language option. Much less of what McT watches
has the Sign Language included in its recording, even though if I'm
reading the abbreviations properly, it intimates Sign Language, or Audio
Description (which I've never heard working on the TV so it must be
choosable) or Sub-titling which also seems to indicate when it's going to
turn on.
Can anyone help the McToodles please? The only option is I watch them
either on my own on the TV, when as I watch very little on the TV I'd like
to watch them with McT, or I sulk watching them on the IPlayer, though
even there I've been caught out a few times. The option takes up a lot of
the screen and encroaches into the relatively small area of vision I have
- widthways - in my right eye.
If anything wants to stop me watching TV altogether except live which
isn't usually at all convenient, well, it hasn't taken long to put me off
again.
Sincerely Chris
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Much of what I want to watch ends up being seen with the Sign Language
option which can't be turned off - nor has he ever seen an option telling
it NOT to record the sign language option. Much less of what McT watches
has the Sign Language included in its recording, even though if I'm
reading the abbreviations properly, it intimates Sign Language, or Audio
Description (which I've never heard working on the TV so it must be
choosable) or Sub-titling which also seems to indicate when it's going to
turn on.
Can anyone help the McToodles please? The only option is I watch them
either on my own on the TV, when as I watch very little on the TV I'd like
to watch them with McT, or I sulk watching them on the IPlayer, though
even there I've been caught out a few times. The option takes up a lot of
the screen and encroaches into the relatively small area of vision I have
- widthways - in my right eye.
If anything wants to stop me watching TV altogether except live which
isn't usually at all convenient, well, it hasn't taken long to put me off
again.
Sincerely Chris
--
http://www.chinavision.info
Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
Flop
Sep 24, 2015, 4:53:40 AM9/24/15
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If it is Virgin then:
http://accessibility.virginmedia.com/our-tv-access-features.html
go to 'Signed Programmes'.
However, by the time that I have read all the instructions and carried
them out, the programme will probably be over.
--
Flop
Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children
Iain Archer
Sep 24, 2015, 5:07:01 AM9/24/15
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Chris McMillan <chris.m...@ntlworld.com> wrote on Wed, 23 Sep 2015
at 22:08:18:
insert only on the repeat, a few days after the first showing? If so,
the remedy, of course, is to catch it at first showing, which may mean
training or instructing your McT.
I don't always manage that, but I don't particularly mind. There was
one particular female SLer that I used to love watching. Apart from
anything else, there was something quite marvellous about the
exaggerated facial expressions she used. They seemed to express
sometimes a knowing, between-you-and-me, ironic commentary on the actual
text, or maybe even the whole televisual experience.
--
Iain Archer
at 22:08:18:
>McT records programmes which are then watched the next day or whenever.
>Much of what I want to watch ends up being seen with the Sign Language
>option which can't be turned off - nor has he ever seen an option
>telling it NOT to record the sign language option. Much less of what
>McT watches has the Sign Language included in its recording, even
>though if I'm reading the abbreviations properly, it intimates Sign
>Language, or Audio Description (which I've never heard working on the
>TV so it must be choosable) or Sub-titling which also seems to
>indicate when it's going to turn on.
>
>Can anyone help the McToodles please? The only option is I watch them
>either on my own on the TV, when as I watch very little on the TV I'd
>like to watch them with McT, or I sulk watching them on the IPlayer,
>though even there I've been caught out a few times. The option takes
>up a lot of the screen and encroaches into the relatively small area of
>vision I have - widthways - in my right eye.
I wonder if you're talking about the BBC2 programmes which have the SL
>Much of what I want to watch ends up being seen with the Sign Language
>option which can't be turned off - nor has he ever seen an option
>telling it NOT to record the sign language option. Much less of what
>McT watches has the Sign Language included in its recording, even
>though if I'm reading the abbreviations properly, it intimates Sign
>Language, or Audio Description (which I've never heard working on the
>TV so it must be choosable) or Sub-titling which also seems to
>indicate when it's going to turn on.
>
>Can anyone help the McToodles please? The only option is I watch them
>either on my own on the TV, when as I watch very little on the TV I'd
>like to watch them with McT, or I sulk watching them on the IPlayer,
>though even there I've been caught out a few times. The option takes
>up a lot of the screen and encroaches into the relatively small area of
>vision I have - widthways - in my right eye.
insert only on the repeat, a few days after the first showing? If so,
the remedy, of course, is to catch it at first showing, which may mean
training or instructing your McT.
I don't always manage that, but I don't particularly mind. There was
one particular female SLer that I used to love watching. Apart from
anything else, there was something quite marvellous about the
exaggerated facial expressions she used. They seemed to express
sometimes a knowing, between-you-and-me, ironic commentary on the actual
text, or maybe even the whole televisual experience.
--
Iain Archer
Kate B
Sep 24, 2015, 6:00:17 AM9/24/15
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On 23/09/2015 22:08, Chris McMillan wrote:
subtitles, 'AD' is audio description, 'SL' is Sign Language. The first
two you can turn off or on, the last not, as we too have found out and
been frustrated by.
If your TiVo is like my TiVo, then go into the Guide and find the
programme you want to record. Highlight it and press OK to see the show
information. If it's afflicted by Sign Language then it will have
something like 'S, SL' after it. Do not record this one! But these
signed programmes are usually only broadcast in the wee small hours and
are always repeats of earlier ones, so the answer is always to record an
afternoon or evening showing.
--
Kate B
London
Chris McMillan
Sep 24, 2015, 3:05:45 PM9/24/15
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On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:08:18 +0100, Chris McMillan
<chris.m...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> McT records programmes which are then watched the next day or whenever.
Nugger, my pointer slipped and I erased Iain's reply by mistake (and I
<chris.m...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> McT records programmes which are then watched the next day or whenever.
don't know how to get it back using Opera).
Thanks, Iain, yes. BBC 2 it is. Though the app on the IPad which I use
doesn't tell me its a repeat so I don't know unless I go to the trouble of
then using the IPlayer on the IMac to find when the first airing was.
Chris McMillan
Sep 24, 2015, 3:12:15 PM9/24/15
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 11:00:12 +0100, Kate B <elv...@nospam.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
Oh. I've been choosing via the IPad's app and haven't been noticing these
things. Thanks, Kate. Will try again.
wrote:
things. Thanks, Kate. Will try again.
Chris McMillan
Sep 24, 2015, 3:14:31 PM9/24/15
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 09:53:40 +0100, Flop <Fl...@flop.knot.me.uk> wrote:
> On 23/09/2015 22:08, Chris McMillan wrote:
>> McT records programmes which are then watched the next day or whenever.
>> Much of what I want to watch ends up being seen with the Sign Language
>> option which can't be turned off - nor has he ever seen an option
>> telling it NOT to record the sign language option. Much less of what
>> McT watches has the Sign Language included in its recording, even though
>> if I'm reading the abbreviations properly, it intimates Sign Language,
>> or Audio Description (which I've never heard working on the TV so it
>> must be choosable) or Sub-titling which also seems to indicate when it's
>> going to turn on.
>>
>> Can anyone help the McToodles please? The only option is I watch them
>> either on my own on the TV, when as I watch very little on the TV I'd
>> like to watch them with McT, or I sulk watching them on the IPlayer,
>> though even there I've been caught out a few times. The option takes up
>> a lot of the screen and encroaches into the relatively small area of
>> vision I have - widthways - in my right eye.
>>
>> If anything wants to stop me watching TV altogether except live which
>> isn't usually at all convenient, well, it hasn't taken long to put me
>> off again.
>>
>> Sincerely Chris
>>
>
> You do not who your provider is.
>
> If it is Virgin then:
>
> http://accessibility.virginmedia.com/our-tv-access-features.html
>
>
Indeed Virgin it is. Flop, if there were a name for a more than numpty it
> On 23/09/2015 22:08, Chris McMillan wrote:
>> McT records programmes which are then watched the next day or whenever.
>> Much of what I want to watch ends up being seen with the Sign Language
>> option which can't be turned off - nor has he ever seen an option
>> telling it NOT to record the sign language option. Much less of what
>> McT watches has the Sign Language included in its recording, even though
>> if I'm reading the abbreviations properly, it intimates Sign Language,
>> or Audio Description (which I've never heard working on the TV so it
>> must be choosable) or Sub-titling which also seems to indicate when it's
>> going to turn on.
>>
>> Can anyone help the McToodles please? The only option is I watch them
>> either on my own on the TV, when as I watch very little on the TV I'd
>> like to watch them with McT, or I sulk watching them on the IPlayer,
>> though even there I've been caught out a few times. The option takes up
>> a lot of the screen and encroaches into the relatively small area of
>> vision I have - widthways - in my right eye.
>>
>> If anything wants to stop me watching TV altogether except live which
>> isn't usually at all convenient, well, it hasn't taken long to put me
>> off again.
>>
>> Sincerely Chris
>>
>
> You do not who your provider is.
>
> If it is Virgin then:
>
> http://accessibility.virginmedia.com/our-tv-access-features.html
>
>
would be applied to me and the TV.
I didn't know that Tivo was more than just one provider.
> go to 'Signed Programmes'.
>
Kate B
Sep 24, 2015, 5:53:53 PM9/24/15
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very useful but as you say doesn't give info such as whether subtitles
are available (essential for us). I have complained about this to Virgin
more than once but to no avail. However, the Guide on the TiVo itself is
very good.
--
Kate B
London
Chris McMillan
Sep 25, 2015, 4:28:47 PM9/25/15
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 22:53:47 +0100, Kate B <elv...@nospam.demon.co.uk>
McT says it gives the same info as Tivo so far as he knows. Now of course
I can't see a single thing I want to watch!
I can't see a single thing I want to watch!
Kate B
Sep 25, 2015, 6:01:47 PM9/25/15
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etc info, which is very annoying, as I said. But the TiVo certainly has
this. A rough-and-ready rule would simply be to avoid recording
anything broadcast after midnight.
--
Kate B
London
the Omrud
Sep 26, 2015, 4:35:11 AM9/26/15
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On 25/09/2015 23:01, Kate B wrote:
> If it is the Virgin TV Anywhere app then it doesn't give the subtitle
> etc info, which is very annoying, as I said. But the TiVo certainly has
> this. A rough-and-ready rule would simply be to avoid recording
> anything broadcast after midnight.
Er. Could you name a time of day which is not after midnight. Other
> If it is the Virgin TV Anywhere app then it doesn't give the subtitle
> etc info, which is very annoying, as I said. But the TiVo certainly has
> this. A rough-and-ready rule would simply be to avoid recording
> anything broadcast after midnight.
than, I suppose, midnight.
--
David
kosmo richard w
Sep 26, 2015, 6:15:47 AM9/26/15
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On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 09:35:30 +0100, the Omrud
<usenet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Er. Could you name a time of day which is not after midnight.
Other
> than, I suppose, midnight.
After breakfast.
<usenet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Er. Could you name a time of day which is not after midnight.
Other
> than, I suppose, midnight.
The tv day starts at 5 or 6 am.
--
kosmo richard w
Chris McMillan
Sep 27, 2015, 11:23:04 AM9/27/15
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programme is a brand new or a repeat from the dim and/or not so distant
past.
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