Well, color me informed.
I lived with a deaf person for a few months, so I got used to watching television with closed captioning. However, it never occurred to me that there is also a viewing alternative for the blind. It's known as DVS or "Descriptive Video Service." Based on the MP3 of a Simpsons episode I'm listening to right now, it's actually quite descriptive, interspersing original audio from the show with vocal descriptions from a narrator. This is better than say, television stations who simulcast on radio. Once while driving back to Minneapolis I listened to a program for twenty minutes before I figured out it was Power Rangers.
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6-19-2005 @ 10:01PM
Man said...
PBS has been doing this for years. The SAP button on PBS used to do DVS, now the 4 closed captions channels offer english, spanish and sometimes color text.
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6-20-2005 @ 1:14AM
Vince said...
I has been done for years here in Canada they have at least 6 dvs channel on satellite tv.
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6-20-2005 @ 10:38AM
Pete said...
Even some movie theaters now do DVS.
http://ncam.wgbh.org/mopix/
Looking at their site, they list Home Videos too.
http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/resources/dvs-home-video-catalogue.html
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