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

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Tuesday, 10 May 2011 11:59am

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”.

Regal has also partnered with Captionfish, leading captioned movie search engine, as a resource for publicising accessible session times.

Read the Regal Entertainment Group press release.


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