SSW Blog

Distortion of HDMI’s Role with CC
SSW Blog There is confusion when some people found no closed captioning (CC) appearing on their HDTV and agreed that HDMI was a factor to cause problematic.  Wait a minute; it is not HDMI. Perhaps cable or satellite provider should provide set top boxes, receiver boxes or tuners. Or, perhaps you did not set up right with [...]
Wed, Feb 24 2010

Reformation of a New P3 Upgrade
SSW Blog Some people sent me several emails to ask what I had the latest experience with a new P3 upgrade and wanted my input badly. I did not realize some people read an article. “A Cool Software, Purple P3” and had asked me several follow-up questions. Although I am sincerely honored to help answer to [...]
Wed, Feb 03 2010

Tech Stories of the Decade (2000-09)
SSW Blog Unbelievable, there are some tech stories in the decade of 2000 to 2009 that we are grateful for technologies to greatly improve our lives. Before we enter the next new decade of 2010, we look ahead to an exciting new or much enhanced technology. Although I had reviewed emerging and existing technologies in my writings, some top [...]
Fri, Jan 01 2010

Disappointments of Techs 2009
SSW Blog As 2009 nears the end of the year, we had some good and bad experiences with some techs in the Deaf and hard of hearing communities. As we could remember very well about the early years of TTY that had greatly influenced our lives, TTY will eventually be no longer in existence except in some [...]
Fri, Dec 18 2009

Demystifying Viera Cast Technology
SSW Blog Of course,  I would imagine like most of you, I was exciting with a new Panasonic Plasma TV and could jump into the world of exploration to find out what the TV technology had offered available features including Viera Cast Technology. Once I had learned that the new Viera Cast requires the Internet connection, I [...]
Mon, Dec 07 2009

Broadband Plan Propaganda – Good or Bad?
SSW Blog As I hoped some of you had the chance to watch some webcasts or read some documents as provided by Broadband.gov, I trust that it would be worth our consuming and long tedious time to learn about what we had lately relating to the Broadband Plan or maybe we don't have any such services in [...]
Wed, Nov 04 2009

FCC Needs Your Input For Broadband Plan
SSW Blog As I know it is not easy to follow a series of broadband workshops at broadband.gov, I had watched several webcasts as follows: Wkshp#1,”E-Gov/Civic Engagement” Wkshp#8,”Broadband Opportunities for Individuals with Disabilities” Wkshp#17,”Big Ideas with Potential to Substantially Change the Internet” Why did I say not easy to fo...
Mon, Sep 07 2009

Purple P3, A Cool Software
SSW Blog As I had dared at my own risk to download P3 onto my Acer laptop, I had enjoyed using it for several weeks but of course I had discovered some errors. P3 is a free software application to enable video conference and text messaging platform. Purple Communication is selling P3 Netbooks but you would be able [...]
Mon, Aug 10 2009

High Hope for our Future National Broadband Plan
SSW Blog Lately there is a firestorm over how to draft some specifics into a national broadband policy as well as there is ongoing debate about how to advance broadband deployment, how to define broadband as “service” or “infrastructure” and other concerns like unserved and underserved rural areas. The plan will be due by February 17, [...]
Tue, Jun 30 2009

Wisconsin’s Misstep of Passing State Law for Cochlear...
SSW Blog As I had learned with dread feeling that Wisconsin had recently passed the bill proposal, Senate Bill 27 to require health insurers that cover hearing aids and cochlear implants for persons under 18 years of age, I bet that Wisconsin State Government made a fatal mistake to pioneer this unethical law. It is very dangerous [...]
Mon, Jun 15 2009

Netflix CEO: His Attitude Evokes Wrong Idea of Captioning
SSW Blog As I happened to read a blog about CEO's comments at the Annual Shareholder meeting about captioning in response to one shareholder. (“Got Shares?” Blog) I don't want to repeat this but let you visit there and however, I want you all to go there and share what you think. I am not sure what the [...]
Fri, May 29 2009

Closed Captioning Woes
SSW Blog No matter, you and I are not satisfied with almost all TV programmings due to poor quality of Closed Captioning (CC). Poor one gal, she asked whether we had similar cc problem on Medium by NBC. As a matter of fact, I had no problem with Medium episodes and however, it looked like it was [...]
Mon, May 18 2009

Fed Up With Scams
SSW Blog I bet most of you are tired of being victims by scammers. Scammers target Deaf and hard of hearing community by taking an advantage of IP based relay services, email, social networking such as Facebook and AIM. We need to work together and fight back against scammers. How? I know it is not easy to [...]
Fri, Apr 24 2009
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