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From: Jack.O'keeffe.Of.129/26@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Jack O'keeffe Of 129/26)
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Subject: Re: Closed-captioned Videotapes
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Date: 17 Jan 90 02:23:21 GMT
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 AS> I've found that more and more movies on videocassettes are
 AS> closed captioned (at least the most popular ones are) and I
 AS> believe they are slowly working on the classics.

Ann, are you familiar with the "Complete Closed Caption Video
Catalog" which contains over 1500 descriptions of captioned
movies?  It's $3.95 from One Video Place, 405 Lowell Street,
Wakefield, MA 01880.

I wish they would display a STANDARD closed caption symbol more
prominently on the captioned video cassettes.  I think there is
a degree of parochialism that has the various captioning agencies
each use their own symbol. ("CC" for the Caption Center; the
funny "[,]" for National Captioning Institute: etc.)  Wish they
would get their act together.

Hmmm... I should have posted this in SilentTalk, shouldn't I?
But I was replying to you, and you were replying to Neal . . .
How about you cross-posting some of this if you receive it so
we can get some action going on SilentTalk.  You can do that
can't you - you're the SYSOP!

 AS> Guess we can keep hoping we don't have to wait 10 more years to
 AS> get the local stations involved.

Two of the Pittsburgh local stations, the CBS and the ABC affiliates,
are captioning some of their local news.  They are using a system
that takes the captions from the electronic "idiot boards" the
news anchors read.  This avoids the MAJOR expense of having a
court reporter for live captioning of the news.  In some ways
it seems to work even better than the court reporter system that
the networks use.

Jack.

... Live, from Beaver County, it's . . . .

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