Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized MediaPlayerthatGives Blindand Visually Impaired Near-instant AccesstoPrinted Text

2014-06-03 Thread Brian Olesen
heheheh I don't care. It's gonna rock the world of access to written text for us, and take it one step further. Just sad that it came out 10 years too late. grin I mean today it's easyer to get materials from folks on a usb stick then it was earlier. But it's a must have for me. That's for

Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media PlayerthatGivesBlindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text

2014-06-03 Thread Brian Olesen
hi, Not correct. Victor Stream 2 doesn't have bluetooth connectivity, which is amazing if you use it together on the go with a dual pairable bluetooth headset on the go. Book Sense xt has that feature, and I asume the new also will have that. Brian -Oprindelig meddelelse- From: Gary

Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized MediaPlayerthatGives Blindand Visually Impaired Near-instant AccesstoPrinted Text

2014-06-03 Thread Dane Trethowan
I agree with you but on this occasion unfortunately much of the technology the device uses just wasn't around or it just wasn't practical to put into a device its size ten years ago, the camera for example, in 2004 Camera Phones were a fairly new thing, I saw my first Camera phone a year

Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media PlayerthatGivesBlindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text

2014-06-03 Thread Dane Trethowan
Now you've got something there, the VR Stream! should have been out 10 years ago, fancy a device in this day and age not having Bluetooth? I wonder what the people who designed the second generation VR Stream were thinking, is it something that can be turned on with a future firmware update? Is

lossless wireless streaming of music

2014-06-03 Thread André van Deventer
Hi all I know this kind of thing has been talked about a lot but I am new to this. I’ve never had to look at this so I’m starting from scratch. I’m perhaps considering streaming music from my computer to my hifi system in another room. At present I have a too long cable doing the same but

RE: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media PlayerthatGivesBlindand Visually Impaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text

2014-06-03 Thread Hamit Campos
It may need the radio or how ever that works if it doesn't have it. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 3:49 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media

RE: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized MediaPlayerthatGives Blindand Visually Impaired Near-instant AccesstoPrinted Text

2014-06-03 Thread Hamit Campos
Awww hell yeah it's going to rock the world with the OCR thing. But you have to admit, Dain is mad funny. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Brian Olesen Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 3:22 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re:

Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized MediaPlayerthatGives BlindandVisually Impaired Near-instant AccesstoPrinted Text

2014-06-03 Thread Brian Olesen
hi, Yup he definately is! :-D Brian -Oprindelig meddelelse- From: Hamit Campos Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 2:30 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized MediaPlayerthatGives BlindandVisually Impaired Near-instant AccesstoPrinted Text

Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized MediaPlayerthatGives BlindandVisually Impaired Near-instant AccesstoPrinted Text

2014-06-03 Thread Dane Trethowan
Won't be long before someone starts complaining about the thickness of the wrist strap this unit has or hasn't got smile. On 3 Jun 2014, at 10:48 pm, Brian Olesen br...@blindkom.dk wrote: hi, Yup he definately is! :-D Brian -Oprindelig meddelelse- From: Hamit Campos Sent:

RE: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized MediaPlayerthatGives BlindandVisually Impaired Near-instant AccesstoPrinted Text

2014-06-03 Thread Hamit Campos
Ah you're just too funny Dain. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 8:52 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized MediaPlayerthatGives BlindandVisually

Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media PlayerthatGivesBlindandVisually Impaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text

2014-06-03 Thread Dennis
this along with the mp3 player in the xt not being as good really makes me edgy about this being a good product. when they added voice commands to the xt it worked for a short time. then they did another fermware upgrade and the voice commands went away. at least on mine. they should have a

RE: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sizedMediaPlayerthatGives BlindandVisually Impaired Near-instantAccesstoPrinted Text

2014-06-03 Thread Dave McElroy
Gosh! The least they could do would be to include a gps with realtime updates, lol. oh and... naah, better not suggest that as this is a family friendly list lol. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Hamit Campos Sent: Tuesday, June 03,

Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized Media PlayerthatGivesBlindandVisually Impaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text

2014-06-03 Thread Gary King
The Blaze EZ will have Bluetooth, but not the latest version. I hope it will be better implemented than it is in the BookSense XT. You can't control the BookSense from a headset. I've had trouble keeping a Bluetooth connection with my XT and my Plantronics 590 headset. I have no such

Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sizedMediaPlayerthatGives BlindandVisually Impaired Near-instantAccesstoPrinted Text

2014-06-03 Thread Dane Trethowan
Indeed, that's the very least they could do. On 4 Jun 2014, at 2:36 am, Dave McElroy d...@drakelroy.com wrote: Gosh! The least they could do would be to include a gps with realtime updates, lol. oh and... naah, better not suggest that as this is a family friendly list lol. -Original

Fwd: [Blindattic] The Blaze EZ from Ferguson Technologies

2014-06-03 Thread john s
Here is some more about the Blaze EZ. text of forwarded message follows: From: Pat Ferguson via Blindattic blindat...@blindtreasures.com Ferguson Technologies is please to announce that We're taking orders for the following item to be shipped in Late June. Please see our contact info at the

Re: [Blindattic] The Blaze EZ from Ferguson Technologies

2014-06-03 Thread Dane Trethowan
Very good and thanks for passint this on, so its seems the device uses Bluetooth 3.0 and that's refreshing. On 4 Jun 2014, at 3:02 am, john s jschw...@cox.net wrote: Here is some more about the Blaze EZ. text of forwarded message follows: From: Pat Ferguson via Blindattic

Re: [Blindattic] The Blaze EZ from Ferguson Technologies

2014-06-03 Thread Gary King
But wouldn't Bluetooth version 4 be more refreshing? Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 12:19 PM Subject: Re: [Blindattic] The Blaze EZ from

Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized MediaPlayerthatGivesBlindandVisuallyImpaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text

2014-06-03 Thread Gary King
Dennis, The Voice Recognition feature went away because HIMS claimed that it wasn't being used by many of their customers. They licensed voice recognition from another company, and they didn't want to continue paying the license fee. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message -

Re: HIMS Inc. Releases New Pocket-sized MediaPlayerthatGivesBlindandVisuallyImpaired Near-instant Access toPrinted Text

2014-06-03 Thread Dennis
thanks gary. i didn't know that. they didn't even give it enough time to clame that i don't think. and why they thought it would in the first place is strange. On 6/3/2014 12:37 PM, Gary King wrote: Dennis, The Voice Recognition feature went away because HIMS claimed that it wasn't being used

Re: [Blindattic] The Blaze EZ from Ferguson Technologies

2014-06-03 Thread Dane Trethowan
Better Bluetooth 3.0 than Bluetooth 2.0, at least the band width's better. Yes Bluetooth 4.01 would be most refreshing but perhaps there are some issues in the implementation or perhaps the hardware could be updated in the future? I'm only speculating of course but perhaps some compromises have

RE: [Blindattic] The Blaze EZ from Ferguson Technologies

2014-06-03 Thread Hamit Campos
Oh yeah that would be even more epic! -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Gary King Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 1:41 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: [Blindattic] The Blaze EZ from Ferguson Technologies But wouldn't Bluetooth

RE: [Blindattic] The Blaze EZ from Ferguson Technologies

2014-06-03 Thread Hamit Campos
Very true. I don't like that idea of compromising just to get the thing out the door though. Dude, just take your time with it, make it way epic, and it'll be even more cool. If it is so they did that that is. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On

RE: [Blindattic] The Blaze EZ from Ferguson Technologies

2014-06-03 Thread John Gurd
A storage card capacity of 128GB sounds good though. You could get a lot of audio books and music on that. John -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Hamit Campos Sent: 03 June 2014 19:45 To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE:

RE: HIMS Inc. Releases NewPocket-sizedMediaPlayerthatGives BlindandVisually ImpairedNear-instantAccesstoPrinted Text

2014-06-03 Thread Dave McElroy
yep, they'd really cause some excitement if they added a vibrater, (lol) ok maybe the wrong kind, but excitement nonetheless. Sorry, couldn't resist. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 9:58 AM

RE: [Blindattic] The Blaze EZ from Ferguson Technologies

2014-06-03 Thread Hamit Campos
Yeah man, that is epic. Sure it's an old hard drive from the early melinum, but it's a lot for an SD card. It's also your basic SSD too. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of John Gurd Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 3:01 PM To: 'PC Audio

RE: HIMS Inc. Releases NewPocket-sizedMediaPlayerthatGives BlindandVisually ImpairedNear-instantAccesstoPrinted Text

2014-06-03 Thread Hamit Campos
Ah you are mad funny too man. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dave McElroy Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 5:34 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: HIMS Inc. Releases NewPocket-sizedMediaPlayerthatGives BlindandVisually

Re: lossless wireless streaming of music

2014-06-03 Thread Laurence Taylor
On 03/06/2014 09:10, André van Deventer wrote: I’m perhaps considering streaming music from my computer to my hifi system in another room. At present I have a too long cable doing the same but I am picking up a slight hum on the system. Possibly poor quality cable, or it's too close to a