They definitely got it right with their digital player, right out of the box,
as opposed to taking years to get their cassette player to be acceptable. As
for converting their analog library to digital, I am all for it, so I can read
them with their player, my stream, or maybe, one day, their app.
Arnold Schmidt
----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Paganelli
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: NLS Update on Talking Book App
Chuck, the sad thing is, I can remember when Talking books came on a 12 inch
record and they played at 33 and a third RPMs and was ticked off when they went
to 10 inch records at 16 RPMs and then all that new-fangled cassettes thing on
2 tracks. That wasn't good enough though for them, They then had to go from 2
track to 4 tracks and then they went a step farther and cut playback speed in
half. They said quality wouldn't suffer but they were wrong. It did. The
best thing to happen to talking books was they went digital. Sound quality
went up greatly if you were listening to a new recording but then trouble
struck again with budget cuts. Far fewer new books were being recorded and
they started emptying out the tape libraries and digitizing those along with
some restorazations of older books on record. Still, the best sounding
recordings come from new books being recording for the first time.
----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Dean
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: NLS Update on Talking Book App
Hi Joe,
While I am looking forward to the IOS app, there is something about using
the talking book machine supplied by NLS that is comforting. I like the
physical buttons and the sturdy feel of the machine. Perhaps it is just a
throwback to when I first started using talking books on cassette... Which was
a big deal back then.
Chuck (mobile)
Pleez x cuze any tie ping or spelin airors.
On May 25, 2013, at 9:12 AM, Alan Paganelli <alanandsuza...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
I have to agree with you here. I have an iPhone 4 and even a Nano 5 and
yet I still take my Victor Reader Stream with me. The 1 thing I do like about
the new Stream is it's ability to be recharged via a USB connector this saving
the need for yet one more recharger in the bag. Still, it would be nice to
have a talking book handy for those times when your sitting around with your
thumb up your nose waiting for something or some one! <grin>
----- Original Message -----
From: Joe
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 6:20 PM
Subject: RE: NLS Update on Talking Book App
I'm an iPhone user, and I still use a Victor Stream to listen to NLS
books.
I prefer the convenience of tactile buttons to navigate, quickly
stop/start,
and change formats. It's going to take me a long time to get used to a
touch
screen to do things you can easily accomplish with a keypad.--Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf
Of Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:07 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: NLS Update on Talking Book App
Hi Christopher and John,
Many on this list who take full advantage of all the wonderful features
and
capabilities of the iPhone forget that there are still a lot of people
out
there who are blind or visually impaired and who either don't want or
don't
need a smartphone which comes with half a mortgage in the form of an
expensive monthly plan.
For me the Stream or Booksense both of which I owned at one point also
don't
have any attraction anymore and instead of spending $300 or $350 or
whatever
these devices cost nowadays on one of these I'd much rather buy an iPod
Touch or iPad Mini as a companion device for my iPhone. But, as I said,
a
lot of blind people are perfectly happy with a Stream or Booksense and I
would imagine it will be quite a while yet before such specialty devices
become obsolete. Oh, maybe a Stream or Booksense doesn't have much to do
with an iPhone, but I think it's OK to discuss them in the context of
services like NLS and I guess if Raul or Cara don't agree they will let
us
know.
Regards,
Sieghard
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