Hongdee Magnifying Glasses for Seniors Watching TV for Low Vision and Independent Living (Blue)

I have Macular Degeneration. At the current stage of the malady strong reding lasses take care of close up work, but seeing all aspects of images on the Big Screen TV require something else. The visuals ten to fifteen feet away distance requires a simple telescopic lens - one over each eye. After having been analyzed for glasses that would look like what eh surgeons on Grey's and New Amsterdam wear (that would cost around $2,500.00, I decided to see what Amazon might have available and bought the TV reader glasses by Eschenbach ($189.00). With these glasses on, I found the clarity of the screen image to now be clear, but with a very narrow field-of-vision and the need of readjusting them each time I put them on. With TV’s both upstairs and down, it seemed to make sense to have two pairs of telescopic TV glasses, but two times $189.00 was going to stretch my budget just bit too far...so I looked further and found these glasses that obviously work on the same principal as the Eschenbach’s but at a fraction of the cost. I figured I’d try them and... WOW! These glass work as well as the expensive pair, have a slightly wider clear field-of-vision, hold their adjustment from use to use...and look just a dorky as the high-priced pair! I like these so much that I’ve already ordered second pair – right after I set up a return of the Eschenbach’s. Full discloser though: when these glasses arrived, the adjustment wheel was in the box separate from the glasses themselves. That only required aligning the center plastic shaft up with the receiving hole in the glasses arm and pressing it firmly in-place. Now, no matter how small the print is on the TV screen: I can read it...!

I use these to watch TV in bed. They are especially helpful when I play the PS4 (yes, I am a 50 year-old gamer). Most modern games like use print/fonts that are SOOO small! That may be OK for PC games, but not when the screen is 15 feet away. These glasses magnify the entire TV image just enough so that I can read everything on the screen. They are also much easier to adjust and focus compared with the cheaper versions of this item (although they are still a little challenging to adjust sometimes). The cheap ones have two separate adjustment lenses, but they wobble like crazy making them impossible to focus. These glasses use a single piece for both lenses, making them more stable and rigid, which is essential for keeping the image in focus.

I purchased these for my 95 year old father. Despite cataract surgery, he has a difficult time watching TV. The glasses arrived today, and he's thrilled. He finds them to be very effective in improving not just TV viewing, but distance viewing in general. They are comfortable and he had an easy time adjusting the power. He compared the glasses to hands free binoculars. I didn't have high expectations for this product, but figured that with a relatively reasonable price, it was worth a try. I would highly recommend.

I bought these for my mother who has macular degeneration and can't make out the tv from where she sits. It was a joke seeing them when I got them, I put them on and noticed they were for kids, they are way too small to watch tv out of, its like you are watching tv out of pin holes, and adjusting them are a pain you have to move the wheels multiple times back and forth and even after they don't work everything is blurred out unless you are 2 ft in front of something then they work. But still looking out of pin holes, the design imo needs to be redone and the pin hole vision needs to be fixed to a bigger glass.

Bought this product for my mother who has macular degeneration. Has not been able to focus on the TV for months. This has brought her joy as she can now enjoy her programs and see the faces on the screen. She does say they get a little heavy after awhile but she takes them off for 10-15 minutes and then is able to resume watching TV.

The product you receive will have nothing to do with the way it was listed. I will wait a long time to receive the product just does not work on the website. Description is completely misleading. Don’t waste your time or money.

I recently cut the cord & some of the streaming services use such small font even with my regular glasses I cannot read the font to know what I am ordering or seeing.. Originally I had purchased a pair of binoculars but found them to be too cumbersome for what I needed.. These glasses are exactly what I needed & definitely do the job for this senior.. Love them & can recommend them to others...

Nah! Just don't bother.Small zone of vision and very flimsy. OK as a kid's toy I guess.