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Advanced session of Mission: Impossible with access features to be screened in Brisbane

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Event Cinemas has notified Media Access Australia that on Wednesday 14 December an advance screening of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol with closed captions and audio description will be held at Brisbane’s Myer Centre.

The screening will be at 9:30pm and take place in the complex’s VMax cinema which provides bigger seats and a larger screen.

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (rated M) stars Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, a special agent who, along with his team has been wrongfully accused of bombing the Kremlin. He and his team are forced to go rogue to clear their names and prevent another devastating attack. 

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Adelaide cinema extends open caption screenings of Twilight: New Dawn

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Due to an unforeseen delay in the rollout of the new accessible program at Adelaide’s Marion cinema, Twilight: New Dawn Part One will screen for one more week with open captions. The cinema intends to screen movies with closed captions and audio description, increasing access to movies for people who have impaired hearing or vision.

The cinema expects to have the installation of digital access equipment completed by 15 December. To ensure a continued program of accessible movies, management has agreed to screen another week of one of the biggest movies of 2011. Screening times for Twilight: New Dawn Part One can be found on the Event Cinema website.

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Captions shown on US flights

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LiveTV, a US company which provides inflight entertainment, has announced that it can now provide closed captioning on the television content available on aircraft

The service, the first of its kind, will initially be available on some aircraft operated by Continental Airlines. Passengers will be able to watch over a hundred channels provided by DirecTV satellite television.

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Canada leads on bilingual caption quality

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The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has approved a set of mandatory standards for French-language closed captions on TV programs. Areas covered by the standards include accuracy of captions on pre-recorded and live programs, acceptable time lag for live captions, and captioning of emergency announcements.

In 2007, the CRTC mandated 100% captioning of programs other than commercials and promos. It also instructed the Canadian Association of Broadcasters to establish caption working groups for the English-language and French-language markets. The new standards adopt the recommendations of the French-language Closed Captioning Group. The CRTC released these recommendations in August, and requested comments from interested parties.

The new standards include the following:

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