The Anonymous Widower

Solving the Problem of Watching Sky or ITV Pictures and Getting Radio 5 Sound

As you may know from this blog, I’m allergic to two things; gluten and adverts.  I don’t like having to continually switch whilst watching sport on Sky or ITV to BBC Radio 5, to avoid the annoying adverts and get a continuous commentary.  In many cases too, the ITV coverage is not up to scratch and vital parts like goals are missed.  To be fair to Sky, there’s nothing wrong with their coverage in general, it’s just the adverts, often for products that contain gluten. So they are a double irritant.

Virgin cable gets around this problem in some ways, because it has a Back button, so you can constantly use it to flip between, your preferred video and audio channels.

For Christmas I was given a pair of wireless headphones by Sennheiser, that plug into the headphone socket of a television or radio and give a good sound quality within range.

So I have plugged them into my Roberts DAB radio for good Radio 5 sound and just put the television on the corresponding video channel.

There are some other advantages.

1. I can get good commentary all over my house and  even in the road outside. 
2. The range also solves the tea and toilet break problems, as never do I have to miss any of the action.  This works well with sport, but you’d probably need to pause the television for a break, whilst watching a serious drama.
3. I’d also be interested to know to, how serious music lovers would find the quality of the sound through the headphones.
4. I now adjust the volume on the headphones, so that if say I was watching something very loud, then I’m the only one gets the loud noise.
5. Obviously, if you are watching with someone else, you just unplug the headphones and watch normally.

It strikes me that various families would find different ways to use one or more of these devices to avoid problems amongst themselves or with the neighbours.

To be fair, I know that the headphones are a good deal cheaper, than the cost of using a solicitor to fight an ASBO caused by a loud television. And not everybody likes Abba!

But whatever, they made a very good Christmas present for me!

December 26, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | Sport | BBC, Cricket, Entertainment, Football, ITV, Music, Radio, SKY, Television, Virgin Media