There is an interesting gadget on the market called TVears. It plugs into your TV set and a power source and allows a person with the specific headset included to silently listen to the program while the program plays out loud for the other people in the room. This allows a hard of hearing person hear at higher volume.
I don't recommend it. The company is in the pre-Internet era. Trouble, nothing but trouble.
I ordered this through Amazon. I promptly received a product from a supplier that was not the manufacturer. I found that the product would not work on my new television set based on a phone call to the manufacturer. I was told to buy a more expensive model. Which I did.
First mistake. If your models don't fit all television sets on the market you should have a serious warning on all promotional material that directs the potential buyer to a URL that shows the correct product match for each TV set. Join the Internet century.
The return of the first product was easy because it followed Amazon rules.
The second product arrived. The headset would not hold a charge for more than 3 min. Small, simple crap.
Entire new retail industries are built on the high quality of Japanese products that set the retail standards for the world in the 1980's. That is why Costco and Walmart and Best Buy can stack boxes of products on shelves and be confident that 99.99% will be flawless. Customers expect this. It was the Six Sigma revolution.
The TVears headphones had not passed any quality control tests. Definitely, TVears is living in the 1970’s.
After trying to get a new headset with several phone calls I was sent a replacement headset. They didn’t arrive after a week. They were sent to the wrong address. A second set was mailed a week after my second request. It is still not here.
Again, this company is not in the Internet age. After the first recorded defect problem I should have received an e-mail summarizing the shipping data and a tracking code. I would have caught the erroneous address. I would have known the tracking was failing. A company that never thought of using email shows terrible incompetence.
Not making a record of my second phone call and not shipping an immediate new headset with one day delivery is simply outside of the range of Internet responsibility.
Of course this incompetent business would never think of making amends. Every restaurant from Denny’s on up will comp a customer for a mistake that the restaurant made.
Nordstrom, founded in Seattle, set the standard for returns. Anything gets returned and people trust retail stores with a Nordstrom level return policy. REI too, which also started in Seattle.
Amazon, founded in Seattle, set the standard for Internet returns. Everything gets returned and handled promptly and reliably. Amazon has created the milieu necessary for Internet business to exist.
Do not do business with TVears unless you are happy with the kind of retail transactions that pervaded the 1970s and earlier.