Freeview box emits piercing beeps - can I kill them?
I've just bought a Freeview box for a partially-sighted member of my family.
I decided on this particular model (TVonics MDR-240) because of its excellent handling of the Audio Description facility. Unfortunately, it has one feature that I don't care for: when channel-changing, a channel with an AD track is identified by a piercing series of beeps; a channel with no AD also generates beeps but in a different sequence. As far as I can see there's no option for turning this off. I've emailed the manufacturer about it, but in the meantime I thought I'd ask this: since the beeps come from the box itself and not via its audio output, is it likely that I could disable them physically? I don't suppose there's anything as obvious as a loudspeaker inside, but is there a likely to be a fairly obvious beep-emitting component of some kind that I could identify and somehow smother or perhaps even remove altogether? My electronics knowledge is pretty rusty (as you can tell) but I used to dabble a good deal. Many thanks. |
Freeview box emits piercing beeps - can I kill them?
On Thursday, September 23, 2010 12:42:02 AM UTC+1, Bert Coules wrote:
I've just bought a Freeview box for a partially-sighted member of my family. I decided on this particular model (TVonics MDR-240) because of its excellent handling of the Audio Description facility. Unfortunately, it has one feature that I don't care for: when channel-changing, a channel with an AD track is identified by a piercing series of beeps; a channel with no AD also generates beeps but in a different sequence. As far as I can see there's no option for turning this off. I've emailed the manufacturer about it, but in the meantime I thought I'd ask this: since the beeps come from the box itself and not via its audio output, is it likely that I could disable them physically? I don't suppose there's anything as obvious as a loudspeaker inside, but is there a likely to be a fairly obvious beep-emitting component of some kind that I could identify and somehow smother or perhaps even remove altogether? My electronics knowledge is pretty rusty (as you can tell) but I used to dabble a good deal. Many thanks. I had this problem' depending what freeview you have. Click Menu, Accessibility Setting; and untick audio description |
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