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MP3 format news service to be launched

by isleofman.com 23rd May 2011

More than 100 people in the Isle of Man will soon be receiving their newspaper fix in digital form.

The Manx Blind Welfare Society offers a weekly recorded news service for anyone with a visual impairment, and until now it's been sent out on a 90-minute tape.

However, from the end of June it will be delivered in MP3 format, and anyone who doesn't have the facility to play the material will be given a machine.

All volunteer news readers have been trained on how to use the new equipment which has been paid for by the Rotary Club.

Chairman of the Manx Recorded News Service Derek Bridson says the new system will be a lot simpler and much quicker:



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Posted by isleofman.com
Monday 23rd, May 2011 10:25pm.

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