[nobe-l] How AMC Stole Christmas

[Sharon Dudley]

Wow! Thank you! Good information. I didn't know there was an H/V marked on
the device. We'll check next time to see if our theater uses the same
system.

And merry Christmas to you, too!

On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Danielle Shives via NOBE-L <
nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> 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
>
> --- nobe-l at nfbnet.org wrote:
>
> From: Sharon Dudley via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org>
> To: National Organization of Blind Educators Mailing List <
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> 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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