I agree. choice is good!
----- Original Message -----
From: Arnold Schmidt
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: NLS Update on Talking Book App
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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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
<[email protected]> 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: [email protected]
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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf
Of Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:07 PM
To: [email protected]
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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