Comments on: “Cinemark Agrees to Provide Audio Description at All First-Run Theaters”

By: Cecil

Cecil — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 20:44:59 +0000

captioning is a text rendering of the dialogue for the deaf. Closed captioning is possibly a legal requirement. This is different and to my knowledge there is no legal requirement to produce audio described content. So if the company making the movie does an audio description and the company making the DVD/blue ray includes it on the disk, then NetFlicks already has it and it’s usable via second audio program (SAP) if they support SAP playback for their streaming service. Otherwise, it is present on the disk if it was provided by the maker of the disk. But present or not, I don’t know of any law requiring it to be there.

By: wfjag

wfjag — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:59:09 +0000

“More reason to wait for the DVD and Netflix”
That’s about the same time the movies come out on HBO, Cinemax, etc., where you can decide whether to turn on Closed Captioning or not. But, I get your point — another reason to have a Big-Screen , Cable and a Blu-Ray, and invite friends over to enjoy home popped pop-corn with real butter and salted to taste.

By: Richard Nieporent

Richard Nieporent — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:19:31 +0000

More reason to wait for the DVD and Netflix.

Not so fast. Netflix will have to caption all of its movies by 2016.

By: OBQuiet

OBQuiet — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:42:51 +0000

I guess this means theater prices will go up again.

More reason to wait for the DVD and Netflix.

By: KDP

KDP — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:26:06 +0000

I’d like to hear the description of the love scenes in a movie like “Last Tango In Paris”. Or the scenes where the kids meet their fate in a movie like “Friday The 13th”.