Cheryl, ok I'm going to tell you a really confusing story. Sorry, but
its confusing from the point that I had a very fruitful conversation
with Apple, but in the end the results still suck.
I was at Radio Shack and grabbed the Motorola HT820 Bluetooth
headset. THis is capable of working with a cellphone or computer/
radio/other streaming bluetooth audio source.
I had no problem at all in getting my Mac to see the headphones and
in fact it went to smoothly. I first enabled bluetooth, then if
memory serves me I let the Mac go find the sucker while I turned on
the device per the instructions. Ok, well in any case I'll not go
into detail because each device will differ in its method of getting
discovered. Ok so once all was configured, I had to go to System
Preferences and in sounds I choose the headphones as my output. Well
here's where everything went sower. First apparently there are
different profiles for bluetooth devices. One of these is wireless
headphones, but I get the impression this is more like telephone
headphones, but I'm not clear if you choose the profile, but I
suspect not, I think its chosen based on the connected device. Well
needless to say the Motorola needed a profile called something like
AD2P or A2DP, but essentually its a high-quality audio profile which
if you do not have, your limited to mono, telephone quality audio.
Now what added insult to injury is that if for some reason your
headphones looses their connection or they go to sleep and the damned
thing isn't chatting with teh Mac all friendly at the minute, your
screwed cause you got no speech. Now if there's a way to swap them
back and forth without having to be in System Prefs and all that,
would really help. The problem was when the headphones got into a fit
and started making ugly noises, I couldn't get VO speaking or
anything like that. Got noise from the headphone of bonk and other
system noises, but VO had gotten really upset and wasn't speaking to
me anymore. I had to get my wife to reset things to the output of
choice, speakers, but I also had to reboot the box once or twice when
I got into this fix and couldn't get VO speaking regardless of
turning it off/on etc.
I'm not so sure Bluetooth is the way to go even if it really sound
good. If I knew I'd not get into a jam like this, I'd be willing to
take even a little hit in quality, but for the cost of the
headphones, no thanks, I'd rather have a talking box.
If you get those working CHeryl, please let me know.
Scott
On Jan 5, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
Well, you do have the option of a wireless headset--the kind with a
base rather than bluetooth. I did find something on google where
somebody with a Mac mini got some bluetooth headphones--logitech--
to work, but he did it with a very new usb bluetooth module. I
found some hints that some of the new bluetooth devices might not
be supported on our computers. when I tried to reconfigure, I got
congratulations for being finished but the message from bluetooth
was that no supported services were found. so either there's a
missing piece of software out there that would make these work on
my Mac or they won't work.
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also".
