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From: moth@dartmouth.edu (Tom Leathrum)
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Subject: Closed-Captioned Videotapes
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Date: 3 Jan 90 05:14:19 GMT
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I was wandering around a bit in a video store one day, and I
started to notice that relatively few tapes were closed-captioned.
I also noticed (while I was home for the holidays and had access to
cable) that the same holds true of the cable movie channels, not to
even mention the special service channels like CNN and
Nickelodeon.  Does anyone have any hard data comparing different
videotape distrubutors and cable services?  This seems like an
issue that needs to be addressed, and the companies should be
contacted.  I'd be happy to do something, but I would like to know
a bit more of what I'm talking about first.  Something definitely
needs to be done before Sony gets it videodisc industry rolling
(only a matter of time now that they have bought Columbia
Pictures).

Also, I will probably be tutoring a blind high school student in
geometry later this term (starting next month?).  I have contacted
Raised Dots Computing in Wisconsin to ask for their catalogue --
does anyone have any other suggestions of where I could get some
teaching tools to help her out?

Regards,
Tom Leathrum
moth@dartmouth.edu