[ale] Recording TV shows?

[Jim Kinney]

Now you're just dreaming!


Hmm. It would be a good thing to have a voice synthesizer that could speak
the channel number while you are searching for anything good.

For that matter, a voice synth to read out the show listings from the tv
guide channel (I have cable) would be very useful.

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:57 PM, John Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote:

> Ah! Now I'm getting excited. This could actually end up being way better
> than my old system. Hey, maybe somebody makes a converter box that talks.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> To: <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] Recording TV shows?
>
>
> > John,
> > I would think that the digital tuner box would fit between your antennae
> > and
> > the VCR so your current setup won't change.
> > The digital broadcast will not affect cable as is it not over the air.
> > The one converter I have looked at is from Best Buy and it has stereo
> > audio
> > out ports.
> >
> >
> http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8624081&type=product&id=1199495190393
> >
> > Disclaimer: I pretty much despise Best Buy (and Wal Mart - another
> source
> > for the $60 converter) and the Radio Shack version are not stereo sound
> > but
> > mono only.
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:05 PM, John Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm blind and i want to record just the audio for certain TV shows.
> Right
> >> now, I have a cable running from the audio-out on my VCR to the line-in
> >> on
> >> the sound card of my linux box. I then use sox & oggenc to record the
> >> shows
> >> in ogg format.
> >>
> >> But in February 2008, this ain't gonna work because my VCR tuner won't
> >> work.
> >> I suppose I could by a converter box but that seems to be adding more
> >> complexity to a system that is already rather unwieldy.
> >>
> >> Is there a simpler way? Can I get a digital TV tuner that connects
> >> directly
> >> to a USB port? Or maybe a converter box with an audio out?
> >>
> >>
> >> Maybe I'm asking for the impossible. I thought about simply getting a
> TV
> >> tuner card for inside the computer but I thought it would be impossible
> >> for
> >> a blind guy to configure.  It would have to have a  CUI setup program.
> >> Linux
> >> is great for using text files and command line programs. But for a TV
> >> card?
> >>
> >>
> >>
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