[Ohio-talk] Fw: Sony and WGBH Partner on Delivering Descriptive Video Service on DVDs

[Grover Zinn]

Absolutely fantastic news.

best


Grover and Mary Zinn



On Sep 8, 2009, at 7:53 PM, Dr. Smith wrote:

> Sony and WGBH Partner on Delivering Descriptive Video Service on  
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> Dr. J. Webster Smith
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> Service on DVDs
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> Great news to share!
> Elizabeth
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>      SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT PARTNERS WITH WGBH MEDIA  
> ACCESS GROUP
> TO DELIVER DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO SERVICE ON HOME VIDEO TITLES
>
> Culver City, Calif. (Sept 3, 2009) - Sony Pictures Home  
> Entertainment will partner with WGBH Media Access Group to release  
> select film titles on DVD with Descriptive Video Service®, or DVS®  
> as an optional feature for audiences who are blind or have low  
> vision.  Descriptive Video Service provides carefully crafted  
> narration of key visual elements inserted into natural pauses in  
> dialogue. Key visual elements are those which viewers with vision  
> loss would ordinarily miss and include actions, costumes, gestures,  
> facial expressions, scene changes and onscreen text. On DVD and Blu- 
> rayT, the DVS track is an Audio option, listed alongside alternative  
> languages, where the menu selection will read "English Audio  
> Descriptive Service."
>
> The ability to enjoy movies with descriptive narration on DVD and  
> Blu-ray DiscT is extremely important to the nation's 12 million  
> movie fans with vision loss, and is the single most requested  
> service of the Media Access Group. Among the first Sony Pictures  
> Home Entertainment titles to be released with the description  
> feature are The Taking of Pelham 123, The Ugly Truth, Julie & Julia  
> and District 9.
>
> Sony Pictures has been a leader over the last decade in providing  
> descriptive audio for theatrical releases in movie theaters equipped  
> with WGBH's Motion Picture Access, or MoPix® systems. Beginning in  
> the fall of 2009, all Sony Pictures theatrical releases with  
> descriptive audio will also include the feature when they arrive on  
> DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
>
> About The Media Access Group at WGBH
>
> The Media Access Group at WGBH includes The Caption Center, the  
> world's first captioning agency, founded in 1972; Descriptive Video  
> Service (DVS), which has made television, film and video more  
> accessible to blind and visually impaired audiences since 1990; and  
> the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible  
> Media (NCAM), a research and development entity that builds on the  
> success of WGBH's access service departments to make existing and  
> emerging technologies more accessible. Members of the Media Access  
> Group's collective staff represent the leading resources and experts  
> in their fields.
>
> Additional information about the Media Access Group at WGBH can be  
> found at www.mediaaccessgroupwgbh.org <http://www.mediaaccessgroupwgbh.org/ 
> > .
>
> The Media Access Group maintains a list of DVDs with DVS at this  
> page of its site:  http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/resources/accessible-dvds.html
>
> Follow the Media Access Group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Media-Access-Group-at-WGBH/91628220291?ref=ts
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