[LINK] Fwd: vip-l: FW: Feedback - FREE information session on captioning - MAA newsletter April 2007

[Adam Todd]

At 10:32 AM 5/04/2007, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>Also from the VIP list.
>Number of captioned DVDs steady
>>
>>The number of new DVDs with captions is consistently around the 60% mark.
>>Media Access Australia has been monitoring the number of new release DVD
>>titles that are released with captioning.
>>
>>Of the 79 titles in our recent survey, 45 have some form of access for the
>>hearing impaired (captions OR subtitles), which equates to 59%.

As much as I'd love to caption my DVD's it's an enormous cost and time 
consumer.  I'm yet to have anyone actually ask for captioned works.

The only captioning we do is language alternatives, and that is even more 
time consuming.