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Author Topic: Is Your Location Ready For The Deaf and Blind? Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 09-19-2013 01:28 PM                        Isn't movies with-no-picture actually Radio? Louis  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 09-19-2013 04:20 PM                     Are rear window closed captioning systems still being used? I've seen it only once in action and it was very distracting. It had a large LED array in the back of the theater, much like a scoreboard. And yes, it does reflect on the screen: extremely distracting. I wonder what it must look like on a silver screen...  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 09-19-2013 05:23 PM                        quote: Mitchell Dvoskin was the last to post Do they run the system all the time, or just when a customer requests it? With the USL closed captioning system, it's running constantly, just as sound it being output constantly. But you won't notice the system being active in any way unless you have a compatible device. The same applies to the Visually Impaired Narration system. For what it's worth, Closed Captioning means the captions are not visible to everyone. You must have some kind of device to view the captions. However, almost all titles come with an Open Caption version which would display captions on the screen which were visible to all viewers.  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 09-19-2013 11:32 PM                     Several years ago I went to a theater that had the "rear window" captioning system. (The one with the big LED signboard on the back wall of the theatre) The auditorium was farily crowded when we got there so we had to sit in the back rows. The young lady I was with wore glasses and she could see the reflection of the LED-thingy behind us in them. She said it was 'extremely distracting". Fortunately, she also had her contact lenses with her, so she when & put them in. I noticed I could see the light from the LEDs bouncing off the back of the shirt of the guy sitting in front of me. It was distracting at first, but eventually I managed to ignore it.  |  IP: Logged Peter Howard Film Handler Posts: 44 From: Forster, NSW, Australia Registered: Dec 2005 posted 09-24-2013 10:28 PM                        quote: Lyle Romer What's next? People can't watch movies while undergoing kidney dialysis so theatres will have to install dialysis machines. How long before Detroit has to install systems that allow blind people to drive their cars unaided? It's getting completely out of hand. We used to accept a car down in Australia called the 'Companion Card'. It allowed the same deal as the US Access2 Entertainment Card, a free admission for the person accompanying the disabled customer. I was told by the people who run the Companion Card programme that there were only about 30 people in my entire region that would have access to the service.... In the first month of operation, we allowed about 100 'companions' in for free, and it kept growing each month. These were people that previously happily came with their disabled friend regardless, as paying customers. I mean, how terrible a person is someone that will only go to the movies with their disabled companion if there's a free ticket in it for them? I dropped out of the programme after 18 months. We didn't really get any negative blowback.  |  IP: Logged

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