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Don't know your budget, but if you are willing to pay 850 for a loewe VCR, u
hsould be able to get a nice teletext VCR for under 400 (Panasonic?) and you
should eb able to get a DVD player without stretching your budget too much
(Pioneer 344 and Toshiba 1300 are both under 500)

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Ben

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"Steve" <prettygood@every.thing> wrote in message
news:B7ECEF62.B7B0%prettygood@every.thing...
> I'm in Australia and my hearing is getting to the point where I want
access
> to TV and video captioning. As far as I can see, my alternatives are:
>
> 1) keep my existing Panasonic VCR and get a teletext TV and a DVD player.
> This gives me access to watching captioned TV (and to teletext whatever
else
> that does these days.) I can't tape cations and I can't watch closed
> captioned videos though I can watch captioned movies via DVD. Obviously
> there are a lot more videos in the store than DVDs but it's only going to
> get better. And this way I get a new TV, can get widescreen, whatever.
>
> 2) buy one of the last shipment of Loewe Centros 7603H VCRs (they're
> discontinued) and buy a non-teletext TV. This way I can tape cations and
> watch captioned videos from the video store but I end up with two VCRs and
> no DVD player. Also I get captions but not the rest of teletext apparently
> (though I don't know what the other teletext channels provide).
>
> My budget is pretty limited and the Loewe VCR is $849 RRP. What should I
> expect to pay for a DVD player? I know this is kind of like "how long is a
> piece of string" but what's the available range?
>
> How much does teletext add to the price of a TV?
>
> Can anybody help with any of this?
>
> TIA,
> Steve  = : ^ )
>
> --
> Not my real email address of course but true all the same. Reply to
> steveb.bigpond@net@au swapping the . and the @s.
>

keep them away from your anions


In article <B7ECEF62.B7B0%prettygood@every.thing>, Steve <prettygood@every.thing> wrote:
>I'm in Australia and my hearing is getting to the point where I want access
>to TV and video captioning. As far as I can see, my alternatives are:
>
>1) keep my existing Panasonic VCR and get a teletext TV and a DVD player.
>This gives me access to watching captioned TV (and to teletext whatever else
>that does these days.) I can't tape cations and I can't watch closed
>captioned videos though I can watch captioned movies via DVD. Obviously
>there are a lot more videos in the store than DVDs but it's only going to
>get better. And this way I get a new TV, can get widescreen, whatever.
>
>2) buy one of the last shipment of Loewe Centros 7603H VCRs (they're
>discontinued) and buy a non-teletext TV. This way I can tape cations and
>watch captioned videos from the video store but I end up with two VCRs and
>no DVD player. Also I get captions but not the rest of teletext apparently
>(though I don't know what the other teletext channels provide).

in case you don't know already for lots of info see

http://www.auscap.com.au/

looks like the 7603H is maybe replaced by the 6206H?
http://www.gha.com.au/hi.html
shop around for prices on both

if you buy the video which includes the caption decoder do you then need a
teletext capable tv?


>My budget is pretty limited and the Loewe VCR is $849 RRP. What should I
>expect to pay for a DVD player? I know this is kind of like "how long is a
>piece of string" but what's the available range?


dvd players can be had now from as low as $199
major brand name players well under $500
if you are planning on rentals and local releases only almost any player may well do
but if you want to play dvds from OS you need to know about zoning see the faq
http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html

>How much does teletext add to the price of a TV?

probably not a lot these days, but see above

>Can anybody help with any of this?

theBlob

> From: "Ball" <ball@technologist.comSPAM>
> Organization: BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.net.au)
> Newsgroups: alt.support.hearing-loss,aus.audio-visual.home-cinema
> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:23:58 GMT
> Subject: Re: Need cations advice.
> 
> Don't know your budget, but if you are willing to pay 850 for a loewe VCR, u
> hsould be able to get a nice teletext VCR for under 400 (Panasonic?)

Did you mean "teletext TV"?

> and you
> should eb able to get a DVD player without stretching your budget too much
> (Pioneer 344 and Toshiba 1300 are both under 500)
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Ben

Thanks Ben. Do these DVD players also play audio CDs?

Steve  = : ^ )

Thanks for the reply.

> keep them away from your anions

Sorry, that went over my head.  :-\

> In article <B7ECEF62.B7B0%prettygood@every.thing>, Steve
> <prettygood@every.thing> wrote:
>> I'm in Australia and my hearing is getting to the point where I want access
>> to TV and video captioning. As far as I can see, my alternatives are:
>> 
>> 1) keep my existing Panasonic VCR and get a teletext TV and a DVD player.
>> This gives me access to watching captioned TV (and to teletext whatever else
>> that does these days.) I can't tape cations and I can't watch closed
>> captioned videos though I can watch captioned movies via DVD. Obviously
>> there are a lot more videos in the store than DVDs but it's only going to
>> get better. And this way I get a new TV, can get widescreen, whatever.
>> 
>> 2) buy one of the last shipment of Loewe Centros 7603H VCRs (they're
>> discontinued) and buy a non-teletext TV. This way I can tape cations and
>> watch captioned videos from the video store but I end up with two VCRs and
>> no DVD player. Also I get captions but not the rest of teletext apparently
>> (though I don't know what the other teletext channels provide).
> 
> in case you don't know already for lots of info see
> 
> http://www.auscap.com.au/

Thanks. I've been there.

> looks like the 7603H is maybe replaced by the 6206H?
> http://www.gha.com.au/hi.html
> shop around for prices on both

That's interesting. I spoke to the Loewe distributors, International
Dynamics, yesterday and they acknowledged that the 7306H was being
discontinued but didn't mention the 6206H. Maybe GHA have it exclusively.

> if you buy the video which includes the caption decoder do you then need a
> teletext capable tv?

No.

>> My budget is pretty limited and the Loewe VCR is $849 RRP. What should I
>> expect to pay for a DVD player? I know this is kind of like "how long is a
>> piece of string" but what's the available range?
> 
> dvd players can be had now from as low as $199
> major brand name players well under $500
> if you are planning on rentals and local releases only almost any player may
> well do
> but if you want to play dvds from OS you need to know about zoning see the faq
> http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html

Hmmm. checked it out. It's complex. What does "the average punter" usually
end up doing? What does The Blob do?
 
>> How much does teletext add to the price of a TV?
> 
> probably not a lot these days, but see above

I see at GHA that Teac have a teletext TV that also decodes closed captioned
videos played on a regular player. This mean I can watch broadcast Supertext
captions from the teletext and watch captioned videos using my existing
Panasonic VCR which, though old, is a good one. I can then buy a DVD player
at my leisure. What sort of reputation do Teac TVs have?

Thanks again,
Steve  = : ^ )

Hi Steve,
Do you use a hearing aid?
Even if you don't maybe some of the Sennheiser IR or RF headphones may help.
http://www.sennheiser.com/sennheiser/icm_eng.nsf/root/85audiologie_20product
s?OpenDocument
Rod LG

"Steve" <prettygood@every.thing> wrote in message
news:B7ECEF62.B7B0%prettygood@every.thing...
> I'm in Australia and my hearing is getting to the point where I want
access
> to TV and video captioning. As far as I can see, my alternatives are:
>
> 1) keep my existing Panasonic VCR and get a teletext TV and a DVD player.
> This gives me access to watching captioned TV (and to teletext whatever
else
> that does these days.) I can't tape cations and I can't watch closed
> captioned videos though I can watch captioned movies via DVD. Obviously
> there are a lot more videos in the store than DVDs but it's only going to
> get better. And this way I get a new TV, can get widescreen, whatever.
>
> 2) buy one of the last shipment of Loewe Centros 7603H VCRs (they're
> discontinued) and buy a non-teletext TV. This way I can tape cations and
> watch captioned videos from the video store but I end up with two VCRs and
> no DVD player. Also I get captions but not the rest of teletext apparently
> (though I don't know what the other teletext channels provide).
>
> My budget is pretty limited and the Loewe VCR is $849 RRP. What should I
> expect to pay for a DVD player? I know this is kind of like "how long is a
> piece of string" but what's the available range?
>
> How much does teletext add to the price of a TV?
>
> Can anybody help with any of this?
>
> TIA,
> Steve  = : ^ )
>
> --
> Not my real email address of course but true all the same. Reply to
> steveb.bigpond@net@au swapping the . and the @s.
>