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NAD Interviewed by CNN about Movie Captioning
By advocacy | March 29, 2007
CNN interviewed the NAD and others about movie captioning and aired a report about movie captioning technology on March 25, 2007.Â
The CNN technology broadcast, titled “Movi es for the Hearing Impaired,†can now be seen online. It shows some of the emerging movie captioning technologies described in a recent NAD Advocacy Blog post(see “Movie Captioning Update†posted March 9, 2007) and by Shane Feldman on DeafDC.com (“Regal Cinemas Considering New Movie Captioning Technology†posted March 12, 2007). The CNN report also shows what movie captioning technology looks like today: DTS Cinema Subtitling System (DTS-CSS) captions projected on screen; and Rear Window Captions.
If you want to see what DTS-CSS captions or Rear Window Captions look like, watch the CNN report.
If you want to see some of the new movie captioning technologies being considered, watch the CNN report.
To see the CNN report (with captions), go to www.projectreadon.com and click on the picture labeled “CNN Movie Theater Captioning.â€Â
The captions will start to play automatically. Pause/Stop the captions. Move the caption box so you can see the video and read the captions.
The video will start to play automatically. You will first see a commercial advertisement.
Start the captions when the video about captioned movies begins to play (you will see movie projector equipment).
Click here to read a pdf transcript of the captions (provided by www.projectreadon.com).
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Click here to read a pdf transcript of the captions (provided by www.projectreadon.com) *and* a description of the video (provided by NAD).
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March 30th, 2007 at 8:16 am
There’s something wrong with the idea of doing the blog. It used to be that you send e-mail to all of us on your e-mail list. Now, you do not do that. I like the e-mail method better because I know when it happened. This about CNN interviewing NAD, I got this information from somewhere else and not directly from NAD Home office. As a life time paying member of NAD, the Home Office owes a courtesty to us.
thank you.
March 30th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Funny, The deaf professional guy was frusrated watching CNN News brodcast in California after 11 PM PST without any closed caption text there. Of course, CNN News stopped at 2 AM EST.
We identified the problem that Turner Network in Atlanta uses digital storage to save pix and audio before using caption vendor service. That’s why rerunning the programs does not have any closed caption.
Simple solution is to move the digital video tape recorder until after the caption vendor service so it can capture three, Pix, Audio and closed caption text.
I am waiting to hear the storage but not yet. Due to Tech. group to review on our suggestion or due to security issue than open caption.
Wow! I hardy believe all deaf/HH californina people do not call CNN or FCC after 8 PM PST in 2005.
Time to check with CNN news if they compile or not either.
Time to review any new patient or which one is best for movie and news brodcast that need to balance between Live closed caption or scrolled caption text that saves a lot of money… Look in the future.
Sam
July 22nd, 2007 at 10:24 am
I love posts like this! Keep up the great blog, I’ve bookmarked it and added it to my RSS reader to check out more often.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Just wanted to let everyone know about a new innovation called the Trejon Interlink System to see what you think.. Trying to get it developed now..Just looking for an investor..
United States Patent Application 20060088064
Kind Code A1
Dampier; Trevis J. SR. April 27, 2006
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Trejon interlink system
Abstract
The Trejon Interlink System will allow you to watch the same movie on the big screen simultaneously right on your Rear-Seat Entertainment System or a video screen. This system will be built upon a wireless network that will include a database where the movies in digital format will be stored. Each screen will have a unique placement in the database (ex. like certain cells in a Excel spreadsheet match a certain topic), which will coincide with the customer, and the Trejon Interlink they were issued. The Trejon Interlink acts as an Access Point and will have RCA jacks connected to it, which will connect to the Rear Seat Entertainment System. There will be a broadcast from the server which will only connect to the designated MAC addresses in the Trejon Interlink that are placed within its sector in the database.
It would enable the deaf,partially deaf, deaf-blind to sit in their vehicle and view the movie that is on the big screen simultaneously at a Drive-In Theatre the same way with captioning on the Rear Seat Entertainment System or video system that will be in digital format and the data for sound can be used to distribute “descriptive audio” for the blind if movies have that available..