Hearing the TV with hearing aids

@rainyday541 I still have trouble understanding speech on the TV. I have Resounds and use the TV Streamer https://www.resound.com/en-us/hearing-aids/accessories/tv-hearing-aid. Since our hearing aids are tuned to our loss, using the hearing aid is the absolute best we can achieve. The Resound TV Streamer uses our hearing aids and brings the audio directly into our ears. TV ears cannot be used when we're wearing our aids (for most people) so a streamer device is a better option. I was able to find a Resound TV Streamer on eBay for under $100. I thinks its about a $250 cost through your audiologist. With the Resound Smart 3D app on my phone, I can adjust the level of sound coming from my Streamer as well as the hearing aid microphones. I don't always want to "turn off" my microphones when I'm watching TV because I may not hear a knock on the door. I still rely on captions to help when I don't understand certain words.
Tony in Michigan

I love using the streaming device with my computer but I couldn’t get it to work with my TV, which is a pretty old model. Not a frequent TV watcher so haven’t sprung for a new one. But I can set it for open captions for streaming programs (Netflix etc.) Might not work if you’re still using DVDs.

I bought a $26 Bluetooth speaker from Amazon for another purpose, but--surprise--it produces sound that I can understand, and reminds me of what things were like before my (moderate-severe) loss. I have it connected directly to the TV so as not to have the slight lag from Bluetooth.

I have a question that has been bugging me a long time. If I use a old sennsenhour, model 840 , tv listening devise, wearing head phones. (w/o hearing aids on) , , I can understand most of the TV speech pretty good. If I us my octicon hearing aids with the octicon tv listener, (no model 840) speech is lousy. audiologist says my brain cant handle it???. I have has same results wearing other brand HAs. anyone have similar reaction? Is it old analog stuff is better than digital??? All the digital compression/tweeking etc , does it help or distort???

The key to being able to hear better is to have a way to get the sound direct from the desired source to a person's personal hearing devices (hearing aids, cochlear implants, etc.) Streamers are available for most brands of hearing aids and all brands of CIs. Your audiologist should be able to help you find the right one.

I believe the ReSound aids work with the mini mic 2+ that also works specifically with Cochlear America CI processors. They are a bit expensive, but worth it. I do not have A ReSound aid but use that device with my CI processor in noisy social settings. Others I know set it by the TV speaker and stream to their HAs and CIs. Again, getting the desired sound direct to the personal device without background noise is key. (Even subtle noises like fans can distort the sound we want to hear.)

Don't overlook hearing loops. They can be installed in homes for TV use. The people who fit and sell hearing aids need to get bugged big time by those of us who need these 'boosters' so they tell people about them. They should have them available for demonstration in their offices. No one wants to buy something without trying it first. Let's start educating and advocating! Are you in?

I just put on closed caption then I don’t miss a thing and free to do.

I have Widex Evoke hearing aids and recently purchased the Widex TV streaming device ($400) from my audiologist. We have a TV soundbar and could not, even with the assistance of knowledgeable salespersons at two different Best Buy locations, figure out what type of connection between the streaming device and the soundbar would work. Without the soundbar, the TV sounds tinny, and when the streaming device was connected directly to the TV and the TV volume was turned up loud enough for my husband to hear it, I could also hear it “past” my hearing aids, only there was a delay, so I was hearing an echo of every sound. We could never correct these issues, so I had no choice but to return the Widex streaming device.

I use closed captions for all TV viewing, and I always sit with the soundbar volume control in my hand, because sometimes commercial sounds, background music, and certain sounds - explosions, car and plane engines, sirens, gunshots, etc, - are reproduced at such volume that they become truly uncomfortable for my ears. I have read repeatedly that movie and TV sound engineers have moved away from concern for accurate hearing as a priority when they design sound levels. Their artistic choices sometimes, perhaps often, trump their concern for audience ability to hear dialogue accurately. The following article is interesting and illuminates some of these problems. https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/production-expert-1/tv-subtitle-usage-up-to-80-what-is-going-wrong-with-dialogue-mixes

I have a Widex hearing aids and the apparatus that brings sound directly to my hearing aids. We removed the sound bar because it was not a sound improvement over the TV speakers. With my present arrangement I hear about 90 percent of speech and I used closed captions to pick up the remaining 10 percent. The closed caps are not as helpful for French dialogue as there are usually more words in French and I don’t read as fast in French but for English dialogue my present set up is pretty good.

I have had that suspicion also. Using an old telephone on speaker (close to the ear) is at least as good as streaming from my cell phone to my hearing aids.
I live a pretty quiet life and probably haven't put the time in to train myself I'm the hearing aids, but wonder why I should have to? Kind of hanker after an old ear trumpet!

I am scheduled to pick up hearing aids from the VA shortly and hopefully they will solve my hearing g problems.
I have been using Sennheiser equipment gotten from the VA to watch TV. MY HEARING PROBLEM is that when there is background noise I cannot hear the conversation.
Hopefully, my new hearing aids will stop that.