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New digital captioning system being unveiled at Show West

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Digital cinema supplier Doremi is introducing a new closed caption viewing system at the Show West trade show in Las Vegas, USA, this week. 

There is little information around at this stage, but according to Doremi, the system uses wireless transmission to send captions to a small display that fits into the popcorn/cup holder in the seat. The screen comes with a rechargeable battery with a claimed life of 16 hours. The display also has a privacy visor to minimise distraction to people nearby. 

The system runs off the Doremi server and meets the SMPTE closed caption standards.

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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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Four cinema chains respond to access questions

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An exemption application to the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) was lodged by Greater Union, Hoyts, Reading and Village cinemas last year. This is to provide an additional 23 cinemas with both audio description and captioning capability.  It also proposes retro-fitting the existing 12 cinema locations with audio description capability. 

As a result of that application, a number of questions were asked of the cinemas by the AHRC to help clarify various points raised by consumers and organisations in the public submission process. The responses to those access questions have now been posted on the AHRC website (Update 3). The questions that are being referred to can be found at the same location as Update 2.

The AHRC expects to make a decision by the end of March 2010.

 

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Senator pushes for cinema access in Kentucky USA

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Kentucky Democrat Senator Ray Jones has introduced a bill which would compel Kentucky cinemas to provide captioned access. According to Jones there are 640,000 Kentuckians with a hearing impairment and most cinemas do not offer a captioned service. 

His bill proposes that any cinema with 5 screens or more offers at least one screen with captions. The delivery method would be left up to the cinema to decide, ranging from closed captioned services (such as Rear Window) to open captioning.

Jones cites attitude as the main barrier to widespread adoption. “It comes down to the people simply not wanting to spend the money to provide this service.”

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