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Access features on new release DVDs

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Access to new release DVD titles during the month of May 2011 stands at 33% for audio description and 72% for captioning. A total of 79 titles were researched this month by Media Access Australia.

The DVD titles released in Australia since March 2011 with audio description include:


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American cinema chain to provide captioning and audio description in theatres nationwide

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Leading motion picture exhibitor Regal Entertainment Group, which owns and operates the largest theatre circuit in the United States, has announced that it will install personal captioning and audio description technologies in all its digital cinema locations by the end of 2012.

The rollout of these access solutions will take place in conjunction with the group’s digital cinema rollout, and will be available for widespread use in America over the next 12 to 18 months.

Chief Administrative Officer & Counsel Randy Smith said, “almost every Regal location nationwide will be fully equipped with digital cinema systems and be further equipped to provide closed captions and descriptive video for our deaf, hard of hearing and blind guests”.


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US cinema chain to provide CaptiView captions

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America’s third largest cinema chain, Cinemark, will install CaptiView closed caption equipment for Deaf and hearing impaired patrons in all its Californian complexes by mid-2012.

A result of legal action taken against Cinemark, the settlement applies only to California but advocates are meeting with Cinemark and other chains to encourage closed captioning services in other states.  


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New closed captioned cinema location in Sydney

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Event Cinemas Top Ryde City is the latest cinema complex to introduce closed caption technology to its sessions.

Using the CaptiView system, Top Ryde City is the first Event Cinemas location in NSW to roll out the new technology, allowing patrons to privately view captions with the latest release movies, every day of the week. 


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