Discovering Terrific TV Content for Less — Cutting The Cord with Blindness or Low Vision

Description

Are you tired of paying exorbitant prices for cable channels that you never use? Do you desire an easier, more accessible way to enjoy your favorite shows and movies? Or perhaps you aren’t a big TV watcher, but are curious about how you can experience great content affordably and accessibly?

Mystic Access is excited to introduce our comprehensive audio course, Discovering Terrific TV Content For Less — Cutting The Cord with Blindness or Low Vision. If you’re ready to kill the cable bill once and for all, or are just eager to know what options are available, this detailed audio product may be just what you’ve been waiting for.

In the last few years, many new and exciting options have emerged to help everyone enjoy their favorite content more easily and affordably than ever. The best news? Many of these options are highly accessible for blind and low vision users, too. In this audio course, we share a number of options to fit your lifestyle and budget and put them through their paces so that you can discover how they may work for you.

This course was created from two wildly popular three-week virtual events which Chris and Kim held in 2018 and 2020 respectively. A wide variety of content was covered, all tailored towards helping you to view programming that you love affordably and accessibly.

Session One

• Blindness and TV watching. How does that work?
• What is cord cutting?
• Available options for cutting the cord.
• What is over the top, anyway?
• How accessible is all this stuff?
• Apps for streaming favorite TV shows and movies. We demonstrate apps for iOS, Fire OS and Android.

Session Two

• Overview of set top boxes and how they work.
• They’re not just for TV / movie watching… we’ll demonstrate this.
• Apple TV
• Amazon Fire Stick or Fire TV
• Roku

Session Three

• Over the top services. We’ll demo and share our experiences using these on various platforms, including apps and set top boxes.
• DIRECTV Now (now AT&T TV Now)
• Hulu Live
• Play Station VUE (which is no longer available, but we left it in for nostalgia)
• Sling TV (see Session Four for updated info)
• Youtube TV

Session Four — Overview, Review, and Saying Good-Bye to Some Services

• Blindness and TV watching. How does that work?
• Review of cord cutting?
• Available options for cutting the cord.
• What is over the top, anyway?
• How accessible is all this stuff?
• Streaming services that are no longer with us.
• Updates to some options covered in sessions one through three. This section includes many new demos.

Session Five — Newly available Methods for Cutting The Cord

• Apple TV+
• Disney+
• Frndly TV
• Fubo
• Vidgo
• Philo

Session Six — Free Ways to Cut The Cord, Talking to Your TV, and More

• Pluto TV
• Tubi
• IMDB
• Stirr
• Xumo
• The convenience of using your voice while cord cutting
• A note on using Roku
• Some new cord cutting services coming in 2020
• A Note and demonstration on TV Everywhere options

How is this course delivered?

You can download highly navigable versions of the full course in DAISY and / or MP3 formats. You can also have the product sent to you on an SD card, thumb drive or other physical media for an additional $15.

I’m new to Mystic Access. Who taught this course?

Chris Nova and Kim Nova were the instructors for this audio course. Each is a totally blind assistive technology user, and they both love sharing tips and tricks to make enjoying your favorite content a fun and efficient experience. Oh, and both are happily living without traditional cable.

Bonus content

IN addition to the content listed above, the course also includes a free bonus of our January 2020 event recording on audio description services. This is a fabulous adjunct to the course material, especially if you’d love to find as much audio described programming to watch as possible. This included bonus is our way of saying “thank you” for your purchase.

This full course includes twelve hours of audio content, and your cost to purchase it is $59.00. We’re excited to share this cord cutting information with you.

Please click on the player below to listen to a sample of our cord cutting product

If you prefer to order the course via phone, please feel free to get in touch. Thanks for your interest.