One thing I forgot to ask...is with the app are you able to set recordings? Also, if you do watch something via the app, do you have the ability to swap to the audio description if the show has it? I'm with Dish and you can't do that.
With the Genie itself, are you able to use the guide to change settings and such. I can with Dish, but the quality of voice is bad .. and way to verbose ... Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 20, 2017, at 3:17 PM, Scott Rumery <blindfait...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I can tell you that the accessibility of the DirectTv app for me is very > good. I am able to browse the guide and the On Demand sections very well. As > for the Talking Guide feature of the Genie receiver, this is something that > as of December 20th we have had access to and it works well as well although > I find it to be rather annoying at times because it can be a little hard to > understand and when I want to get it to stop talking it doesn’t seem to want > to stop. Having said this, I am glad that we do have the Talking Guide as an > option but it does need quite a bit of improvements. One more thing to > consider is that if you have a television in another room like a bedroom the > only tv that will have the Talking Guide is the room where the mane receiver > is. I have talked with DirectTv and I told them that this is not acceptable > because this means that a blind person cannot easily access the information > on all of the tv's in their house and as a paying customer of their service > we should be able to use the Talking Guide feature on any tv in our homes. > They of course gave me the canned response of “we are planning on putting out > an update that will make this possible in the near future.” > > I don’t know about what their definition of near future is, but this was back > in December that I was told this and still I cannot access the Talking Guide > on any other tv in our house accept for the one in the living room. > > I hope that all this will help with your decision. > > Scott >> On Feb 20, 2017, at 2:08 PM, Peter Logan <pdlloga...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Just wondering how well this app works with VO. 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