I haven't heard anything from their support. I really am considering ordering one to toy with. I would like to first see if my mother can use it.I will probably then get one for myself. The demos do not have enough detail for me. To play a DVD right now Karen must use 3 different remotes. The Sony TV remote will not operate the Sony DVD player and neither will operate my Denon receiver. Even if I don't use the surround just to play a movie Karen must go into the TV menu and change the source from video 4 to video 1. On this HD set Video 4 is for the HD input. Then she must use the DVD remote to operate the player. And for the surround sound she must change the source from TV to DVD. I think we have more remotes around here than Carter has little liver pills. It would be nice if surfboard could have a macro to turn on the DVD player, change the TV source and probably asking too much change the Denon source. Then command surfboard to power off the DVD and reset the other units to normal operation. I can manually change the Denon and manually play the DVD but there is no way that I can change the source. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ray Boyce To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 2:56 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] A Little mor on Smart Strips
Hi Lenny Well we do not have these things out here yet but it seems they need a little fine tuning to work properly. Most people want them to work straight up and if they find it is all to hard will not bother. How are you going with your Talking surf Board Remote. The Talking Clock which responds to your voice sounds like a cool idea also. There is a demo of it there also it plays well with Media Player. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lenny McHugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 6:14 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] A Little mor on Smart Strips > Ray, all I did was a search for smart strip and went to a few sites to > find that they no longer carry it. I then saw a link to Amazon and went > there. Under the product was a link for user reviews. The average was 4.2 > out of 5. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ray Boyce > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 2:03 PM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] A Little mor on Smart Strips > > > Hi Dan > I asked at my first post is anyone using these smart strips, Lenny has > done > some more research and found that some companies no longer carry them. > > Does this mean that they are more trouble that they are worth or have > problems for consumers. > Lenny how about digging out that report you come across so we can read it > and make up our own minds on their suitability. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 3:31 AM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] A Little mor on Smart Strips > >> So, I was thinking about these smart strips a little more. For me, one >> problem would be that I still use an external speech synth. The synth has >> a battery, on the Dec Express it is internal, on the MiniTransport it is >> easily removable. But, on the Dec Express, when the power is turned off >> at the powerstrip, the Dec continues to operate on the battery, so you >> would still have to turn it off separately from the computer. >> >> Secondly, rather than having a smart strip, could you simply have an >> outlet that is controlled by the light switch in the room, plug your >> regular stupid strip into that socket, then when you leave the room, and >> being a nice green person, you would of course, shut off the light, then >> the power to that outlet would be killed and all peripherals would die >> quietly. Wouldn't this achieve the same goal? >> >> -- >> Blue skies. >> Dan Rossi >> Carnegie Mellon University. >> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Tel: (412) 268-9081 >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.7/1233 - Release Date: 1/19/2008 > 6:37 PM > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > ---------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.7/1233 - Release Date: 1/19/2008 6:37 PM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
