[nfb-talk] described video, a lost art???

[James Aldrich]

Hello!

If you become a member of the SA Mobile Network from Serotek, you can listen
to any number of described videos which are available on that site!  These
can also be passed onto a Victor Stream.
You can also go onto
http://www.blindmicemart.com
and go to their movie vault link.  You can download MP3 audio files of 
described movies which can be played on a Victor Stream or MP3 player!  They 
seem to have a pretty good collection!  I'd rather download these and 
listen!

HTH

Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "qubit" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
To: <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 6:37 PM
Subject: [nfb-talk] described video, a lost art???


-- or at least, a lost product...

Ok, it seems like the only described videos I have gotten I have gotten from
friends, or given to friends, and a few of them purchased myself.
But WGBH DVS, the company that used to distribute (sell) the WGBH produced
described movies has disappeared and no one has any idea where their
inventory has gone -- and asking among blind friends where else I might find
such things yields no info -- no one knows where to get described video any
more, except of course from AudioVision, whose number I have.  But they tend
to do a lot of old TV dramas and not the new, big budget movies.

I confess I have downloaded movies from persons who have audio described
soundtracks, but I would like to know that if movies are still being
described, where can I get legitimate copies?  I was thinking that movies
like "I Robot" were done so well that even though I have the soundtrack
already, I'd like to buy the movie with the description just to support what
I consider a good piece of work -- both the movie and the description.

Has audio description become so common that it is sold on DVD's sold to the
general public?  Could I go to Block Buster and ask for a movie with an
audio described soundtrack?  Or are described videos still only sold by
specialty vendors?

Someone please chime in if you have viewed or purchased a movie lately.
Also I know besides WGBH, there are other organizations, domestic and
overseas, that do audio description. Where to I get video soundtracks from
them?

Thanx
--le




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