Hi all, Myself and veena used the XL cinema app in the movie theatre to watch Sanju with audio description yesterday. The experience was great. For the first time we felt as if we have seen the complete movie. Generally we go to the movies only with friends and relatives and keep bugging them to describe the non-verbal parts of the film. Even then the experience is not as complete as yesterday. I have even gone to the extent of googling for the movie story earlier since often we miss out on critical incidents in the movie while watching without description.
I think this app is the best solution for providing audio description. There is no need to think about making changes to the movie theatres which anyway does not seem feasible. It will be great if more and more movies do the audio description on their own. The app will need to be improved continuously. On iPhone 6s it worked without any problem, it even detected the movie interval. On an iPhone 7 the AD track stopped several times and had to be started again and again. Great work done by Mr. Dipendra Manocha with the Saksham and XL cinema team. Kudos to Mr. Raj Kumar Hirani for providing the permission to launch the audio description. thanks, Prashant -----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Aruni Sharma Sent: 27 July 2018 09:11 To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Subject: Re: [AI] Netflicks and audio discription hello, XL cinema is providing unmatched entertainment to us and in my view is much more comprehensive and useful than the media descriptions we are getting in netflicks. I don't find Netflicks very useful apart from the fact that it has got a very big number of movies and tv shows. I rather find it very inconvenient at times because we cannot exclusively listen to the action descriptions. The limited info that is available, wherever there is any subtitle, because you either hear everything, dialogues being repeated in the language of your choice simultaneously or hear no descriptions at all. In fact media description is quite different from audio description. Thanks and regards, Dr. Aruni Sharma. Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science, JNPG College, Lucknow, India. twitter: www.twitter.com/arunisharma facebook: www.facebook.com/arunisharma Skype: arunisha...@outlook.com On 26 July 2018 at 23:34, Dipendra Manocha <dipendra.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > The reason for separate audio track in XL Cinema that the purpose is > to provide a solution for the movie hall. The movie Sholay was put > there to let everyone try out the system before you head to the movie > theater. Else, the there is not reason to play movie Sholay from > YouTube and AD from XL Cinema. > > The key here is The very innovative solution to be able to provide > audio description while the movie is in movie hall. > > Well, the reason for most production houses not doing audio > description is that there is a huge doubt in their minds that afterall > is it really required by us? Because the numbers do not really show > that there is much interest in it. May be it is too early days for > reaching out to any conclusions on it right now. > > Other day I received comment about XL Cinema approach o audio > description and heard that the Cinema halls solution deployed in US is not > reliable. > Not man persons with blindness go to every theater and wen one > actually goes in the staff generally is caught unaware on how the > system is to be operated. The app based solution seem to be a much > better approach in such circumstance. > > however, as I said Cinema world is very keenly watching the response > on the movie Sanju. I am afraid, the results till now are very > discouraging and we are going to have very tough time convincing same > or any other production house to invest their time just for handful persons. > > Thanks > dipendra > > -----Original Message----- > From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On > Behalf Of john clayton > Sent: 25 July 2018 17:30 > To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues > concerning the disabled. <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> > Subject: Re: [AI] Netflicks and audio discription > > Hi, > First of all thanks for letting me know about the audio description... > > I feel so stupid atm that if you were to ask me who is the most stupid > person I have had the pleasure to deal with, my answer would be me.. > > I watched the entire thing and kept on thinking that audio description > would have been so good for this (as I generally watch hollywood > movies which have audio description) only to realise that one existed > all the dam time if I had just bothered to look! > > Gotta give praize where its due, netflix is and has been great with > audio description ever sinse it decided that it would bring the ADV to > its content. As the saying goes, if you do something, do it well. I > just hadnt expected it to bring in audio description to a tv show in > hindi, as I have always had this mindset hindi= no ADVs. obviously through no > fault of mine. > > I mean, how many of our Indian movies or studios do you see bothering > with ADVS? much less a seprat headset in movie theotors to audio > description in the dvd. > > And yes, I am aware of the recent sanju buz in the list, a great fan of MR. > dependra who I did not know was is the founder of sakhsham (apologies > if I have mangled the spellings of the names) but I haven't jumped on > the bandwagon yet is because I am not too found of the way its > implemented I mean the sepret tracks for the audio description and > listening to the movie through another... > Please understand that I am not trying to depreciate all the work that > has gone into the sanju audio description (although yes I may come > across as > such...) but just trying to put across the fact that yes I have heard > of Indian movies having audio description and why I generally dont > prefer use them. > Because I know after everything I have written if I did not put this > in there would be a few that would jump down my throat that bollywood > indeed has Audio description. but I think I have digressed quite a bit > from the origenal point. lol. > So yes, cheers for the information. and here is how presumtions are > not good,fokes. > I know which company I will be supporting through a monthly > subscription, even though I would so love friends on the indian netflicks... > > > > > > On 25 July 2018 at 12:13, George Abraham <geo...@eyeway.org> wrote: > > > I have been watching the serial "Sacred Games" on Netflicks. 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