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Movies for the hearing impaired
Technology makes going to the movies a little easier for the hearing impaired. CNN's Gary Nurenberg reports.
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The National Association of the Deaf wants you to hear this.
"People who are deaf and hard of hearing have been left out of going to the movies because they don't have access to the soundtrack."
Activists think the answer is open-captioning, words on the screen. But…
"Less than 1% of all movies being displayed today are actually displayed with captions.”
"It's a real, you know, issue because it's a visual medium, and for those who are not impaired, and are seeing the actual lettering on the image, it detracts for them.”
"Our product is a see-through wearable display that superimposes digital information on your field of view.”
That industry is experimenting with alternatives that let individual movie goers see captions while the general audience doesn't. These glasses allow viewers to read text on a green screen below the main screen. That's it over his left shoulder.
"The glasses run about 19 cents.”
Washington lawyer John Stanton sued theaters to force better accommodations for the deaf. He now uses a device offered by some theaters called “Rear Window”.
"They just simply put it in the cup holder and then they adjust the reflective device to find the rear window screen. ”
Although Stanton says the deaf community prefers open captioning. “I prefer to go, take ten dollars that we have right now to go enjoy the movies, movie theaters or the general public, if you may, become more accepting about the captioning.”
Regal Theaters which offers open-captioning recently invited the deaf community to sample alternatives.
"Maybe develop a system that is more user-friendly, which will enable us to then have captioning at every show time.”
Just what deaf movie goers want to see.
Gary Nurenberg, CNN, Washington.
