On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 01:07:01PM +1100, Jason White wrote: > > display. Ideally I would have gone with the Baum super vario, but this > > is no longer available in Australia. > > You could contact Baum and find out what price they would offer you. This > would involve importing the hardware, but I've done that before with no > difficulties. You would need to calculate the exchange rate and take account > of the shipping costs, but that's easy enough.
Yes of course if it was my decision I would do that, but Vision Australia weren't so keen. As of 5 minutes ago I learnt that humanware still has one remaining here, so that pretty much solves my problem. > I know someone who has a Brailliant BI 40 and who is very pleased with it, > including the BRLTTY support. I am also considering buying one at some stage, Good to hear. > as I want a display with a braille keyboard that can connect to a mobile > device via bluetooth. I've thought about that, android Braille support is a bit lacking currently. In terms of IOS though I suppose having the Braille display might be useful, but I guess its still just as portable as carrying around a physical querty bluetooth keyboard, though you do get the bennefit of Braille output :) > The BRLTTY protocol support for these displays was introduced as of version > 4.4 Right, ok. > There have been substantial price reductions across the braille display > industry in recent years. I don't know what is driving these, or what effects Yes, it's an interesting one, though I'd expect good quality from Baum still. > they will have on quality. Any manufacturers who haven't brought their prices > down will find it hard to compete in the new environment, which is surely why > every manufacturer I checked (Alva, Baum, Handytech, Papenmeier, HumanWare, > Freedom Scientific, etc.) offers a 40-cell display below the US$3000 price > point. (I am referring to US prices because they are easiest to find on the Yes most definitely. Thanks for your help. Cheers, Dan _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
