Why is TACtv necessary?
• To explain the need for a TV channel that will serve people who are blind or vision–restricted, Geoff Eden tells the story of watching Fatal Attraction years ago. His wife had been gamely trying to describe the action in the gripping thriller when suddenly, at an especially tense moment when Glenn Close appears to drown in a bathtub, Eden´s wife fell silent. “What´s going on,” asked Eden, who is blind. “Wait a minute, wait a minute…” his wife replied breathlessly. Finally, after Eden had listened in frustration to dramatic music and sound effects until the scene ended, his wife told him what had happened. “Naturally she found it difficult to watch the movie and at the same time describe to me what was going on,” explains Eden, who lives at Welland, Ontario. “Not everyone´s wife or son or daughter or friends can think quickly and are good at describing a show.
