You can definitely make recordings using the app. Ask for audio description, I can't say. I have an actually found anything about audio description anywhere. The only place I ever have it is through Netflix or movies rented through iTunes on my Apple TV. I have no clue about audio description on DirecTV.
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 20, 2017, at 1:59 PM, Peter Logan <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Just wondering how well this app works with VO. 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