Someone challenged me to state of advantage of a hearing loop (compared to infrared or FM assistive listening) for home TV listening.  I've experienced four advantages to my TV room hearing loop over my previous infrared system:

1)      It delivers superior sound, customized by my hearing aids for my own ears.

2)      It requires no fuss with extra equipment (taking hearing aids out and putting them away, getting the receiver, putting on the headset, etc. . . . rather just push a button and Ive got customized loudspeakers in my ears).

3)      It allows me to use my hearing aid M/T setting, enabling me to hear the phone ring or conversation (which my hearing aid incompatible system didn't).

4)      The FM system that I tried out with my BTE aids was an additional $3000 for the two boots plus the transmitter.  A home hearing loop amplifier is now selling for as little as $99 + a little more for wire or a pad.

I'd also suggest to hearing aid providers that it's in their interests (as well as patients' interests) to increase the functionality and appeal of their core product.  The main hearing aid incompatible TV listening product is now advertising itself with "Works better than hearing aids." 

Hearing loops require, work with, and increase the functionality of, hearing aids . . . precisely what the hearing industry should welcome, yes?