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On Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:08:26 UTC, Brian Reay wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article , Tim Lamb wrote: I think I need to rephrase the question to *would anyone care to recommend bluetooth connected comfortable earphones for a geriatric?) Problem I can see is they are still going to need their battery charging. Which means returning them to a charging point of some sort. So no real advantage over any type of cordless headphones. But may well have a degree of latency other types won't have. The Amazon Choice ones I mentioned have a claimed run time on batteries of 100 hrs. As for the €˜lag, in the past I found you soon learned to ignore it. The beauty of wireless is you can move around without getting straggled - even pop to the loo or to make tea / coffee- without thinking about it. Yes it's very handy, I do this with my iphone/ipad and the airpods, and if I do go out of range and the signal stops my idevice also stops at that point so when I return I can press play again. Or if I've only just been 'cut-off' by retracing my steps I find that the 'track' has been paused for a short time and will continue where it left off, but this is only if it;s cut off for a few seconds. But I've only noticed this with podcasts, because as I don't normally listen to music with airpods so there is a chance I have missed a word or two but didn't notice. I don't think this works with headphones listening to the TV or radio. |
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whisky-dave wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:08:26 UTC, Brian Reay wrote: Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article , Tim Lamb wrote: I think I need to rephrase the question to *would anyone care to recommend bluetooth connected comfortable earphones for a geriatric?) Problem I can see is they are still going to need their battery charging. Which means returning them to a charging point of some sort. So no real advantage over any type of cordless headphones. But may well have a degree of latency other types won't have. The Amazon Choice ones I mentioned have a claimed run time on batteries of 100 hrs. As for the €˜lag, in the past I found you soon learned to ignore it. The beauty of wireless is you can move around without getting straggled - even pop to the loo or to make tea / coffee- without thinking about it. Yes it's very handy, I do this with my iphone/ipad and the airpods, and if I do go out of range and the signal stops my idevice also stops at that point so when I return I can press play again. Or if I've only just been 'cut-off' by retracing my steps I find that the 'track' has been paused for a short time and will continue where it left off, but this is only if it;s cut off for a few seconds. But I've only noticed this with podcasts, because as I don't normally listen to music with airpods so there is a chance I have missed a word or two but didn't notice. I don't think this works with headphones listening to the TV or radio. Current wireless headphones are on 863MHz (or whatever frequency around there is allocated for such things) and the range is better that Bluetooth. It does depend on the path but Ive even tried it down the garden- just to see if it works. However, the tx end is a bit large. I bought a BT tx off eBay a week or so back to try something- linking the audio from the TV in the motorhome ( the TV doesnt have BT built in) to the audio system ( which has BT). It worked perfectly. The plan is to alsouse the BT tx on the audio output of the satellite Rx so I can feed radio audio to the MH system when in Europe- then we can hear R4 and Classic FM. I then thought Id try a set of BT headphones but Ive not ordered them yet. |
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On Thursday, 20 February 2020 15:13:53 UTC, Brian Reay wrote:
whisky-dave wrote: On Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:08:26 UTC, Brian Reay wrote: Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article , Tim Lamb wrote: I think I need to rephrase the question to *would anyone care to recommend bluetooth connected comfortable earphones for a geriatric?) Problem I can see is they are still going to need their battery charging. Which means returning them to a charging point of some sort. So no real advantage over any type of cordless headphones. But may well have a degree of latency other types won't have. The Amazon Choice ones I mentioned have a claimed run time on batteries of 100 hrs. As for the €˜lag, in the past I found you soon learned to ignore it. The beauty of wireless is you can move around without getting straggled - even pop to the loo or to make tea / coffee- without thinking about it.. Yes it's very handy, I do this with my iphone/ipad and the airpods, and if I do go out of range and the signal stops my idevice also stops at that point so when I return I can press play again. Or if I've only just been 'cut-off' by retracing my steps I find that the 'track' has been paused for a short time and will continue where it left off, but this is only if it;s cut off for a few seconds. But I've only noticed this with podcasts, because as I don't normally listen to music with airpods so there is a chance I have missed a word or two but didn't notice. I don't think this works with headphones listening to the TV or radio. Current wireless headphones are on 863MHz (or whatever frequency around there is allocated for such things) and the range is better that Bluetooth. It does depend on the path but Ive even tried it down the garden- just to see if it works. However, the tx end is a bit large. I bought a BT tx off eBay a week or so back to try something- linking the audio from the TV in the motorhome ( the TV doesnt have BT built in) to the audio system ( which has BT). It worked perfectly. The plan is to alsouse the BT tx on the audio output of the satellite Rx so I can feed radio audio to the MH system when in Europe- then we can hear R4 and Classic FM. I then thought Id try a set of BT headphones but Ive not ordered them yet. My dad had a pair of 'wireless' headphones called TV ears the base unit connected to the TV via the headphone jack, this unit used IR to send the signal the the headphones. Not really what we'd call wireless aka bluetooth or the MHz range, but they worked well enough. I guess yuo could call them optical too. https://www.completecareshop.co.uk/s...YaAi1nEALw_wcB |
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On Wednesday, 19 February 2020 21:41:31 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
Perfectly fat I bet. Insulation. get's cold here. |
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David Paste wrote
Rod Speed wrote Perfectly fat I bet. Insulation. get's cold here. Thats what balaclavas are for tho I spose they do risk you getting gunned down by the cops specially if the rest of you is fat and lumpy so it looks like a suicide vest and a fat head doesnt. |
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UNBELIEVABLE: It's 09:59 am in Australia and the Senile Ozzietard has been out of Bed and TROLLING for OVER SIX HOURS already!!!! LOL
On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:59:38 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again: FLUSH the 85-year-old trolling senile pest's latest troll**** 09:50??? And STILL not bedtime for you, senile cretin? LOL -- Bod addressing abnormal senile quarreller Rot: "Do you practice arguing with yourself in an empty room?" MID: |
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On Sunday, 23 February 2020 22:59:51 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
Thats what balaclavas are for That's that Greek honey pastry, you hefty berk. |
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