[nabs-l] Source for DVD's and Blu Ray Disks with DescriptiveVideo

Sat May 8 17:05:21 UTC 2010

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From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Steven Max-Faults
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 8:22 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Source for DVD's and Blu Ray Disks with
DescriptiveVideo

Hello All,

I thought the Movie Vault at BlindMiceMart.com was a great suggestion. They
have a lot of good movies. I was wondering if any one knows how to download
from SendSpace? For some reason, I’m not able to find the download link. I
think I had this problem before, but I don’t remember what I did.
Thanks!

Steven

Steven Max-Faults

SteveMax83 at yahoo.com

917-865-6953 (Mobile)

--- On Wed, 5/5/10, Jewel S. <herekittykat2 at gmail.com> wrote:The download
link is near the bottom of the page it will say download link and you will
see the link below.
Rania,

From: Jewel S. <herekittykat2 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Source for DVD's and Blu Ray Disks with Descriptive
Video
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Date: Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 7:19 PM

yOU CAN ALSO GET DOWNLOADABLE dvs MOVIES AT WW.BLINDMICEMART.COM AND CLICK
ON "bLIND mICE mART mOVIE vAULT." tHEY HAVE THOUSANDS DESCRIBED BY MANY
DIFFERENT COMPANIES (SUCH AS QUITE A FEW bRITISH ONES). tHEY ARE FREE TO
DOWNLOAD AND ARE MP3 FILES, SO YOUR nls tALKING bOOK pLAYER, vICTORsTREAM,
OR MP3 PLAYER WILL PLAY THEM. oNLY DRAWBACK? nO VIDEO FOR PEOPLE WITH ENOUGH
VISION TO SEE THE PICTURES. i CAN'T, THOUGH, SO THESE ARE GREAT, AND NO
MOVIES TAKEN UP PRECIOUS bRAILLE BOOK SHLEF SPACE!

jUST A THOUGHT, NOT A REPLACEMENT!

~jEWEL

On 5/5/10, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>----------
>>From: Mary Watkins [mailto:mary_watkins at wgbh.org]
>>Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 2:20 PM
>>To: Danielsen, Chris
>>Subject: Hi Chris - New Resource
>>
>>I'm not sure if you saw this announcement yet, in case you didn't, 
>>here it is.  We've been asked since the DVS Home Video effort ended 
>>for a one-stop resource for locating described movies on DVD, and so 
>>now we've made one.  Please share far and wide as you see fit.
>>
>>Best,
>>Mary
>>***
>>
>>WGBH's Media Access Group, home to the Descriptive Video Service 
>>(DVS®) has debuted two new online resources today for fans of 
>>described movies.  Both can be reached via a new, easy-to-remember Web 
>>site address:  www.describedmovies.org
>>
>>1. DVS on DVD
>>This page of our site has been updated to enable description fans to 
>>learn about mainstream DVD and Blu-ray discs that are available with 
>>audio description, and provides a Amazon click through option which 
>>takes you directly to the page of amazon.com to order the disc. The 
>>DVD and Blu-ray discs listed on the page are available wherever discs 
>>are sold (online and in stores), however clicking through our site to 
>>purchase your movies will provide the Media Access Group with a small 
>>percentage of the sales revenue, and helps support our  efforts.
>>
>>(The hit comedy It's Complicated from Universal Pictures Home 
>>Entertainment, starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin is 
>>the most recent movie released on DVD and Blu-ray with description.)
>>
>>2. Full List of DVS Movies
>>This page lists every movie we've described for television, cable, DVS 
>>Home Video and DVS Theatrical (for movie theaters) since DVS debuted 
>>as a service in 1990.  We're at nearly 800 films!  The list is 
>>sortable by movie title or distributor (the company for which we 
>>originally described the film). Ask for described versions of movies 
>>from your television, cable or satellite provider, from movies by mail 
>>services and from Web sites which offer streaming or downloadable 
>>movies.
>>
>>As always, www.mopix.org takes you to
>>information about movies offered with
>>description in theaters equipped with Motion Picture Access systems.  
>>And try www.captionfish.com  you can type in your zip code, set the 
>>search filter for DVS and find the equipped theaters, described movies 
>>and accessible showtimes near you.
>>
>>We like hearing from you, so please let us know what you think, and if 
>>you have suggestions for making our pages more  helpful.
>>
>>Thank you.
>>
>>The Media Access Group at WGBH
>>Boston – Los Angeles
>>access.wgbh.org
>>617 300-3700
>><access at wgbh.htm>access at wgbh.org
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