Electronic Digital Magnifier Visual/Reading Aide for TV

I got this reading device a few weeks ago. It is easy to set up and use and has good quality of image. After connecting to a TV, the fine print can be viewed clearly. Especially the high contrast mode is very helpful.

Item purchased for macular degeneration sufferer. The magnified image on the Amazon page is misleading. The printed words would have to be no bigger than 2 inches wide from side to side and top to bottom.

Cons:

1. Hard to master

2. Narrow field of view makes reading more than one line of text difficult. Field view size is about 2 inches (typical paperback book is about 4.5 inches of text), so user must constantly move magnifier and it is very easy to lose the line being read. Moving from end of one line of text to next is challenging.

3. User had multiple headaches in learning to use narrow magnified area and reported "seasickness."

4. Wire comes out of "wrong end" of device. Unlike a mouse, the wire to the monitor must be positioned under the user's wrist. Using the device like a mouse, with the wire pointing away, results in an upside down image.

Pros:

1. Easy to use

2. Very clear optics

3. Can be turned off and on from surge suppressor. That means users can turn on monitor and magnifier with one button on surge suppressor. Since suppressor on switch is illuminated, very easy for users to find "on" switch.

Summary this would be very good if the optics were wide angle and the wire went out the front end.

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Going on a couple of months and it seems to be working well for my mom.It's significantly cheaper than competing products from Bierley and appears to be constructed as well or better. It would make sense to include large type instructions, but since I helped set it up, that wasn't an issue.

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