I am a reasonably fit 83 year old male with practically no hearing in my
left ear and only about 30% in the right ear and am obviously very
reliant on a hearing aid. I watch more TV than is good for me especially in the
middle of the night when my type two diabetes causes me to wake up and so I
reply upon subtitles heavily. Regrettably
the requirements to add subtitles are not very high and many TV program
providers don’t add them. I used to be
able to rely upon a very effective Induction Loop system but that has gone.
My elderly Panasonic TV started to lose subtitles last year especially on BBC so
it had to go which was a pity because the Bellman Induction Loop which was
connected to the TV by Scart connections was very effective.
It was not until I had bought and set up a new Panasonic TV that I found
that it did not have Scart connections because Panasonic had started to use HDMI
connections so my Induction Loop was stuffed.
I went back and asked the staff at PCWorld Currys uk for advice but they
thought that their job was selling not understanding the equipment that they
sold. I then commenced a period of asking all sorts of organisation how I could
sort out my old Induction Loop and I received much expensive advice that led me
to buy a number of converters none of which worked.
By that stage I had reached the conclusion that perhaps the old
Induction Loop was Analogue and the new Panasonic was Digital. During that time various types of Induction
Loop were suggested but when I looked into them I found that I required
additional pieces of equipment so I have come to this forum in the hope that
there will be people who could advise me.
Many thanks in advance,
Brian L
