On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:39:57AM -0800, Linux Rocks ! wrote: > >On Friday 20 December 2002 03:31 am, Joseph Carter wrote: >: On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:46:46AM -0800, Linux Rocks! wrote: >: > Ill wait for the dvd :) I like Joe... I do find it amusing that a man >: > that is legally blind (5' pole and all) keeps inviting poeple to movies >: > >: > :) >: >: You know, even totally blind people do things like watch TV and the like. >yep! and use computers too! EFN has has a workstation for the visually >impaired for 5 years or so... >: >: There are also an increasing number of "described audio" programs for the >: blind. CSI, for example, is available with described audio - every TV >: made in the past decade or so has a function called SAP (Secondary Audio >: Program), which often used to be used for offering both English and >: Spanish audio for the same show at the same time. If you watch CSI (the >: only show that comes to mind immediately as having it), try watching it >: with SAP enabled. It might be buried under a menu or something. > >Really... cool... Im aware of SAP, but I didnt know about described audeo. >TV's with builtin subtitlle function are popular with foriegn students. Its >easier for them to understand whats going on, sometimes its hard to >understand the speech part, and they can read anything they may miss.. > >: >: >: I say in the exact middle of the very front row for The Two Towers, BTW, >: on account of the subtitles I knew would be present. I was able to read >: them just fine from where I sat. Obviously this means I need a movie >: theater in my room for watching subtitled anime, right? =D > >I hate subtitles... one of the really cool features of dvd's is that you can >enable/disable subtitles, listen in many languages. I watched Metropolis >(the anime/computer gen movie, not the old black and white). I was impressed >as it ws subtitled in about 6 languages, as well as dubbed in that many too! >
For my part i find subtitles very helpful when watching at home, either due to background noise or due to the sucky quality of my TV audio (and when the original is !english, i CAN'T STAND dubbing; let me hear the actors!). I've found myself turning on Closed Captioning on the TV more and more since i started studying ASL, i don't know if there's a correlation (of course, the CC can add an unintentional element of humor as the keyboardist struggles to keep up with a live broadcast ...). Some Deaf activists have pointed out that CC on public TVs in gyms, bars, lobbies etc has done some good in making people aware of the accessibility issues of TV. -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
