[nobe-l] How AMC Stole Christmas

[Danielle Shives]

My local theater, which is a Regal theater, got the audio description equipment a few years ago, and my blind friends and I had many similar experiences to yours early on. I personally have received the equipment set up for the hearing-impaired, and also have been given headphones that did not work. One of my friends was given the equipment set up for the wrong movie. I don't know if the equipment at your theater is the same as ours, but we have discovered that there is an H setting for "hearing" and a V setting for "vision", so we started asking specifically for the V setting. Between that and the fact that I think they know us by now, we've had very little problem for a while. I always have my brother, who I see movies with and is sighted, double-check that it is on the correct setting as well, because the H or V is clearly visible on the device. As a side note, I check to make sure the headphones are working ahead of time by plugging them into my phone. Hope this helps; sorry you didn't get to enjoy Star Wars, but have a Merry Christmas!
Danielle

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From: Sharon Dudley via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org>
To: National Organization of Blind Educators Mailing List <nobe-l at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Sharon Dudley <sharon.a.dudley at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [nobe-l] How AMC Stole Christmas
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 16:48:00 -0500

Thanks for responding, Karl. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one this
happens to. The movie theaters have to get better about training their
employees!

On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Karl Martin Adam via NOBE-L <
nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Exactly the same thing happened to me.  My fiance and I went on the day
> The Force Awakens came out, and we got the hearing impaired headphones.
> They did give us a free set of tickets, so we're going to go back, but we
> watched it through with her describing it for me--thankfully there weren't
> any people near us that we bothered.  So far I've only gotten the right
> headphones a third of the times I've gone and specifically asked like you
> if they were the video description and not the sound boosting ones.
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