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New cinema access system moves to development phase

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SightCine, a Los Angeles based start-up company, has secured development funding to create a prototype of its caption glasses concept. The idea is that the captions are displayed on the screen but are only visible to people wearing the glasses.

There is not much detail in exactly how the glasses work, but other systems using glasses have been developed before. In February 2007 an emerging technologies demonstration was showcased at a cinema in Washington DC. This was reported in Winter 2007 issue of The Media Access Report (“R&D For Cinema Captioning Systems”, p16).

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Television
Video
Education
Cinema
The arts
Digital technology
Web
Research & policy

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Region 1 catching up on DVD access

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As often reported, the UK and more recently Australia lead the world in audio described DVDs. In January statistics, audio described new release rental titles in Australia reached 24%, which is comparable to UK levels. 

Set to join us in the foreseeable future is Region 1, which consists of Canada, the USA and USA territories. Historically, Region 1 has been lucky to receive five audio described releases per year. But as a reaction to consistent consumer demand, some major DVD distributors have committed to releasing their audio described theatrical releases to DVD with the description soundtrack included. In 2009, 10 titles were release with audio description, mostly towards the end of the year. 2010 will undoubtedly break records for Region 1 audio described DVD fans. 

Taxonomy: 
Australian Home Entertainment Distributors Association
Video
Blind or vision impaired
Deaf or hearing impaired
Audio description

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