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Le Chuck:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on May 20, 2012, 11:24:27 am ---Don't they have devices for the HI, like Braille encoders and special displays?

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Common misconception. The hearing impaired (HI) do not read Braille because they aren't BLIND!1!1!!

and yes they do have special displays, they suck ass. Try watching a movie and reading a newspaper at the same time. On screen captions are the solution. No need to reinvent the wheel here.

Well Fed Games:
I would be 100% ok with captions becoming the standard, there are plenty of folks with various levels of hearing ability. Heck, I have been to enough theaters where the center channel was undermixed or downright broken that it makes sense anyway.

shmokes:
By becoming standard do you mean that every film would have captions, visible to everyone? I'm not sure I would be 100% okay with that. I mean, maybe greater than 50% okay, seeing as it would be nice for the hearing impaired, but I do find it a bit distracting. I sometimes enable captions in videogames when I find myself missing some of the dialogue. But invariably I turn it back off because I find myself reading the subtitles instead of paying full attention to the voices and I end up missing a lot of the humor and drama that only comes through in the voice inflections.

wp34:
Seems like they could embed captions in the video and then have it only display if you were wearing special glasses.

Vigo:
:stupid Was thinking that might be a possibility as well.

I personally don't mind captions though. Back when the wife didn't speak perfect English, we would always watch everything with english subtitles on. They actually grew on me and I would find myself flipping the subtitles on even when watching alone.

TV closed captioning is just downright funny though, at least on live stuff. I love to watch what pops up on the screen. :lol

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