I agree with all this though I have to say that Bluetooth would be the
last platform I'd be using for this sort of thing because of the delays
involved, now perhaps to be fair the developers of this ket you're
talking about have found a way around the delay factor and perhaps
that's where some of the cost comes in, this kit may use custom chips or
something who knows but whether or not this is the case its still a
nasty pain to the hip pocket.
I have a system with my hearing instruments that uses some sort of FM
transmitter/receiving system and its digitally encoded somehow so as to
prevent static and I paid half the price you're quoting so I'm wondering
if there's an alternative kit or model you can look at.
The model I have connects directly to a connector at the back of the
hearing instrument and is powered from there.
If someone is wishing to speak to the wearing of the hearing instrument
then they were the microphone with the FM transmitter round their neck
and speak into this, the conversation is then transmitted directly to
the hearing instrument.
The transmitter can be programmed for multiple operations, for example
you can ttransmit a line in source - say a tape recorder - to one
receiver connected to the right ear whilst transmitting someone's speech
or another source to the left ear and this sort of arrangement can be
damn handy for those times when you need extra description for slides at
a lecture etc.
On 22/09/2011 10:02 PM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote:
Hello everybody
At the risk of being accused of trying to put people down, I am going to raise
one further subject because this is something that I find outrageous.
I was just looking on a website here in the UK which is that of a company which sell
equipment for the hearing impaired.<http://www.connevans.co.uk>. They sell a
series of items designed for hearing aid users in an environment where it is
difficult to hear the spoken content. For instance in a lecture room, meeting or
similar where the desired audio source is either a considerable distance from the
listener, or where the background noise makes it difficult for the listener to hear
what's being said.
These devices use Bluetooth to communicate with a receiver that's either at ear
level or which interfaces with a hearing instrument to give the listener access
to a desired audio source via a radio microphone which the speaker either wears
or holds.
The transmitter and receiver, as a kit, cost over £1100 Pounds Sterling. That, I would
think, is way beyond the reach of most individuals, and I think it's absolutely
outrageous that a company supposedly there to "help" the disabled is charging
quite so much for its products.
No; I'm not dumb! I understand fully that developers have to eat. I also understand that
companies and developers have to make a reasonable profit on what they're selling. But
that is outrageous. We're talking nothing but a transmitter/receiver here and nobody can
convince me that a transmitter/receiver kit is going to cost anywhere close to that kind
of money to develop. That, to me, is profiteering above and beyond the
"reasonable" and I'm disgusted. I have already written to the company concerned
to express my views. I don't for a second expect to receive a response; nor do I expect
them to take notice of what I said. But I have at least made my views known.
I think it's utterly wrong that those who are afflicted by what is a very
debilitating disability should be victimised in that way, just because they
can't take advantage of what the rest of us take for granted.
Now I hope nobody will twist what I'm saying; but I think it's grossly unfair
that companies are able to profit in that way in a market which, I accept, is a
minority market. All the same, there should be some kind of dispensation for
individuals struggling to buy that kind of equipment for their own use.
Lynne
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