[blindkid] Christmas DVS movies

Penny Duffy pennyduffy at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 23:41:05 UTC 2012


Abby LOVES watching shows with DVS.. She misses so much without it.. I had
the TV set up to do it and since the law changed i haven't figured out how
to do it..I need to play around and figure it out.

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Richard Holloway <rholloway at gopbc.org>wrote:

>  list who is interested in Audio Described movies, but just in case I'm
> not...
>
> I picked up a copy of Disney's "A Christmas Carol" tonight (the Jim Carey
> version) with Audio Description. I find that DVD's are easier to switch to
> described audio than broadcast TV. The way to configure DVS is pretty
> simple-- just a couple of menu clicks turns Audio Description on or off.
> Some DVD's even have a special "splash screen" that loads when you first
> load them where you can switch on the main screen... This particular movie
> was $13 at Target n DVD or $20 for BluRay.
>
> I also posted a while back that TBS ran "A Christmas Story" for 24 Hours
> last Christmas with Audio Description running on the Spanish Audio Feed. As
> far as I know they didn't disclose their plans to do so, but my guess is
> they'll run it the exact same way this year.
>
> If you haven't tried sharing favorite movies and TV shows with a blind
> child or friend using this feature, I can tell you that at least my blind
> daughter loves them. She knows far bet
>



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