[gui-talk] would like some help after disconnecting from cableTV

[Rob Kaiser]

I heard a commercial the other day that sounds like ATT Uverse has cut the 
cord. I don't know if this is true. When I was living with my mom in 
Chicago, we had uverse and I had them for a short time in Orange, CA in late 
2009 and early 2010 before I had to leave the place where I was living. I 
really liked uverse. They seem to have a lot of good channels. 
Unfortunately, as many of you have read from me in the past, we only have 
Charter cable up here in the high desert of Southern California. Although we 
get a lot of channels, the problems I have had with the internet until 
recently, make me still not really like using this company.



-----Original Message----- 
From: Gerald Levy via gui-talk
Sent: Friday, July 4, 2014 10:59 AM
To: ken lawrence ; Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk 
Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] would like some help after disconnecting from 
cableTV


The problem with these proprietary boxes is that they cannot receive most
cable stations and certainly no over-the-air stations.  And except for the
Apple TV box, they are not accessible.  And while the apple box may itself
be accessible thanks to built-in Voice Over, most of the streaming video
does not have described audio, so as far as I'm concerned, it's a big fat
waste of money.  I'm mostly interested in news and information, and none of
these boxes lets you stream the dozens of news, educational and
informational channels available on cable.

Gerald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ken lawrence via gui-talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2014 1:27 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] would like some help after disconnecting from cable TV


> Hi sending a new message in reply since windows live would send the whole 
> digest on my end.  was wondering on this topic as it relates to newsline 
> TV listings.  what about a Roku box or one of the other set top boxes such 
> as apple TV and a rabbit.  what additional channels do you get with one? 
> for example I like GSN and boomarang on cable although unfortunately 
> comcast doesn’t have boomarang at least not here in NJ.  can you still 
> watch cable channels on a Roku if not what types of channels do you get. 
> and how are they for totally blind users.  been meaning to quiery newsline 
> on that possibility especially since more and more people are cutting the 
> cord and cable rate goes up, up up.  also comcast is believed to be ready 
> to drop 3000000 customers in preparation for the murger with time warner. 
> then there is the customer service issue.  comcast and time warrner rank 
> right at the bottom in that department. why should they care they will 
> soon have a monopoly.  if it was me deciding it I wouldn’t have comcast as 
> a platinum sponsor of a convention of an organization like NFB not the way 
> they treat sighted customers Huh?  I don’t like being used by a 
> corporation to show how compassionate they are to try to shut up sighted 
> critics.  anyway shouldn’t rant like that Huh?  maybe a roku is the way to 
> go or this other one I’ve heard of a rabit.
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