I'd be stunned if the government did anything to fix the web-media-doesn't-have-captions problem in anything less than a decade, by which time the target technology will be something else... I also honestly fail to see how a telephone captioning service can put captions on a video screen.
You'd be bitter too if you've had to cope with years and years of bad advice, no matter how well-intentioned, and constantly finding that designers of new technologies failed to consider the deaf in their designs.
Such as, there's no way to transmit closed caption data over HDMI so those of us who can't hear who want to use new digital video equipment are probably out of luck. I can't connect an HDMI upscaling DVD player to my HDTV and expect to see captions because of this lovely piece of stupidity, for example.
Yes, they do. The TV in my parents' kitchen that I mentioned has a screen size of 7" diagonal, and at the typical viewing distances you see in a kitchen, it's surprisingly readable. Font selection is a large part of that. I've seen hideous font choices on some TVs that wouldn't be readable at all when scaled down. I do agree that it seems contradictory; I was surprised when I found I could easily read the small captions. I'm glad that makers of small sets often do include it even though it's not a legal requirement to do so.
I always check a TV (not that I buy them often, but still) in the store before I buy to make sure the closed captioning is easily readable and easily controlled -- for instance, if the power goes out do I have to re-enable the captions, and if so is there a button on the remote for them or do I have to dig through the menus?
There's nothing wrong with doing that although some of the channels that some of us like (History, Discovery for me) are on cable/satellite only, and many of us can now finally get those channels in hi-def (well, I don't get Discovery HD yet, but Charter says they're working on it, and I hope to move soon and the house I'd be moving to has DirecTV HD that gets both of those in hi-def and a lot more. Annoyingly, I'll have to give up my TiVo series 3... grr. LIFETIME Series 3, I might add. Grrr. DirecTV needs to get rid of that crappy DVR they have and go back to TiVo. But yet again, some big business screws over its customers using a product they love and shovels total crapware on them.
To be fair, though, LCD/plasma flat panels do tend to be digital because they are all new, designed specifically to receive and display digital signals (and have backward compatibility to coax-connected sources), so it's hardly surprising that people point to those and say "that's a digital TV". There are digital-capable CRTs out there (my parents have one, 4x3 no less) but they're not all that common.
So that answer isn't inaccurate, but it isn't as clear as it could be on what can and can't deal with digital signals.
You can also still buy small TVs without closed captioning because the bill requiring CC decoders exempted sets under a certain size. That doesn't mean that small sets can't have them; my parents have a small set in their kitchen that has a decoder in it.
Retailers will drop analog TVs sooner or later. I believe one of the majors already has.
In other words, even if a law doesn't mandate something, it tends to happen eventually (usually) if it's really a good thing for sellers and buyers. Manufacturers fought against the CC decoder requirement because it would cost too much but in the end the number of sets made meant that the chips now cost something like a fraction of a cent in bulk.
All that whining for nothing. And think of all the bad press I'm sure they got (I no longer recall) when word got out among disabled people that big business wanted to screw them in the name of profit. That doesn't help the manufacturers'/stores' cause either.
And yet, the bin completely closed, or the flight wouldn't have taken off. Once the bin is closed there's no excuse for it to open until someone pushes the button. If the bins open in midair something must be done as that's a safety issue.
I should not have to pay for captions. Let me hammer that in again: For a medium that is supposed to replace a widely-accessible medium, captions should already be in place. It is an insult and a slap in the face to the millions of viewers who literally depend on those subtitles. A replacement solution needs to be in place, and it cannot be a windows-only solution. It cannot have a fee. TV doesn't have a fee beyond any cable/sat charges, wheelchair users aren't charged for ramps, elevators, etc., so why should I have to pay any charges over what normal-hearing people would pay?
And it's nice that some random fan production has captions. But we're not talking about captions. We're talking about moving shows from TV to the Internet. Those shows are captioned now. They NEED to be captioned in the future when they move online. Throwing me a total red herring that I have no interest in does not solve the problem.
I'd still also like someone to show me the plans for making sure these offerings are accessible.
I sure hope that other pilot got a talking-to for putting other people in danger, as stuff falling out of overhead bins can severely injure people.
I wonder how pathetic those latches are if they open during a sharp turn? The bins should be latched securely enough to withstand any maneuver the aircraft is capable of within design spec. Clearly, someone got cheap.
So... you're OK with a literal last-minute ("we'll release something by the end of the year"), half-assed (no info describing what the records mean), lame (I'm sure there's a lot missing from this report) effort that wasn't going to be out in the first place ("we don't want to hurt the profits of lazy airlines who don't give a shit about their customers that they just see as walking wallets")?
Got it.
Great. Do you fly an airline, and which one is it, so I can avoid them for life because now I know they hire pilots who don't care about very real concerns?
So in other words you think that solving new problems by using solutions that are already known to work is stupid? Would you seriously walk up to your boss and say "No, we can't use that idea to fix this problem, because it's an old idea and not a new one, even though it's already known to work"? You'd deserve every blank confused stare you got.
You don't fix problems by trying wacky new things that you have no confidence in. You do things that are tried and true.
Oh, and by the way, did you ever consider that the shape is old but the rest is not?
Typical -- armchair space program "experts" flapping their lips and showing how little they really know. Uninformed BS like this is EXACTLY WHY we get people screaming that the space program wastes a ton of money, blah blah blah blah fucking blah, when it gets 1/2 of 1% of the budget.
Let's try not sending billions to DoD which has gotten caught paying for hookers on government-issued, taxpayer-funded credit cards.
I love my VW GTI and this is my 3rd VW. Never had a problem with the previous two. Cars tend to be OK as long as you take good care of them unless you have the bad luck to get a lemon (which unfortunately does happen, even with Hondas like the one you have).
It's a real shame that none of the Japanese automakers have managed to hire some of the good designers from the German builders to get that famous reliability combined with that famous usability.
They exist but cost about $1000. I, too, think dualformat for $500 or less is what people need. I'd be willing to spend that much, but not more, on being able to play everything out there.
Why can't these shortsighted people realize that their inability to work out a solution and sitting there screaming "Our format rocks, yours sucks!" is just keeping everyone away?
Oh there will be some complaints about any system for anything, but then again we didn't get the big hissyfits until, say, the Diebold e-voting fuss. It was all minor stuff. Now, when e-voting has been proven over and over to be a cause of trouble, we're rushing to implement it, and then when more problems are found, we... try to keep e-voting?
Better to stuck with the system that wasn't anywhere near as controversial.
Was it exactly the same system, though? (this is a serious question) - also, since states are separate from one another, Ohio wouldn't be affected by Florida anyhow.
I haven't tried to buy anything from the itunes store, but I've been meaning to try a preview to see if the previews have it. If you try it, do let us know.
Not if the law said that it only applied to American-produced or distributed content meant for American audiences. And don't the networks block non-US addresses from viewing shows already? (I've never looked at their services but I remember reading about such blocks).
What's wrong with the method that worked fine for years that no one (at least not enough to get into the press) complained about? Making everything electronic isn't the answer to everything.
Two different versions of the video, since I think YouTube flattens the video (I've never tried to upload), one with subtitles and one without, is how I'd do it. Also, make sure to make your subtitles white with black backgrounds to be most easily readable against any background color.
You could look in Flash instruction guides, but I've heard enough gripes about how Youtube screws up submissions that I wouldn't be surprised if an additional layer containing captions got lost at upload.
I hope that helps but I don't know enough about Flash authoring yet to be much use.
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I'd be stunned if the government did anything to fix the web-media-doesn't-have-captions problem in anything less than a decade, by which time the target technology will be something else... I also honestly fail to see how a telephone captioning service can put captions on a video screen.
You'd be bitter too if you've had to cope with years and years of bad advice, no matter how well-intentioned, and constantly finding that designers of new technologies failed to consider the deaf in their designs.
Such as, there's no way to transmit closed caption data over HDMI so those of us who can't hear who want to use new digital video equipment are probably out of luck. I can't connect an HDMI upscaling DVD player to my HDTV and expect to see captions because of this lovely piece of stupidity, for example.
I'm honest, and don't download shows (aside from the captioning problem), but I agree, since solving your problem would solve mine.
Sorry -- thought you were in Europe or something. I'm also in the US.
Yes, they do. The TV in my parents' kitchen that I mentioned has a screen size of 7" diagonal, and at the typical viewing distances you see in a kitchen, it's surprisingly readable. Font selection is a large part of that. I've seen hideous font choices on some TVs that wouldn't be readable at all when scaled down. I do agree that it seems contradictory; I was surprised when I found I could easily read the small captions. I'm glad that makers of small sets often do include it even though it's not a legal requirement to do so.
I always check a TV (not that I buy them often, but still) in the store before I buy to make sure the closed captioning is easily readable and easily controlled -- for instance, if the power goes out do I have to re-enable the captions, and if so is there a button on the remote for them or do I have to dig through the menus?
There's nothing wrong with doing that although some of the channels that some of us like (History, Discovery for me) are on cable/satellite only, and many of us can now finally get those channels in hi-def (well, I don't get Discovery HD yet, but Charter says they're working on it, and I hope to move soon and the house I'd be moving to has DirecTV HD that gets both of those in hi-def and a lot more. Annoyingly, I'll have to give up my TiVo series 3... grr. LIFETIME Series 3, I might add. Grrr. DirecTV needs to get rid of that crappy DVR they have and go back to TiVo. But yet again, some big business screws over its customers using a product they love and shovels total crapware on them.
To be fair, though, LCD/plasma flat panels do tend to be digital because they are all new, designed specifically to receive and display digital signals (and have backward compatibility to coax-connected sources), so it's hardly surprising that people point to those and say "that's a digital TV". There are digital-capable CRTs out there (my parents have one, 4x3 no less) but they're not all that common.
So that answer isn't inaccurate, but it isn't as clear as it could be on what can and can't deal with digital signals.
You can also still buy small TVs without closed captioning because the bill requiring CC decoders exempted sets under a certain size. That doesn't mean that small sets can't have them; my parents have a small set in their kitchen that has a decoder in it.
Retailers will drop analog TVs sooner or later. I believe one of the majors already has.
In other words, even if a law doesn't mandate something, it tends to happen eventually (usually) if it's really a good thing for sellers and buyers. Manufacturers fought against the CC decoder requirement because it would cost too much but in the end the number of sets made meant that the chips now cost something like a fraction of a cent in bulk.
All that whining for nothing. And think of all the bad press I'm sure they got (I no longer recall) when word got out among disabled people that big business wanted to screw them in the name of profit. That doesn't help the manufacturers'/stores' cause either.
And yet, the bin completely closed, or the flight wouldn't have taken off. Once the bin is closed there's no excuse for it to open until someone pushes the button. If the bins open in midair something must be done as that's a safety issue.
Whoops -- meant to say "we're not talking about some random no-name fan production, no matter how slick the site or movie looks".
I should not have to pay for captions. Let me hammer that in again: For a medium that is supposed to replace a widely-accessible medium, captions should already be in place. It is an insult and a slap in the face to the millions of viewers who literally depend on those subtitles. A replacement solution needs to be in place, and it cannot be a windows-only solution. It cannot have a fee. TV doesn't have a fee beyond any cable/sat charges, wheelchair users aren't charged for ramps, elevators, etc., so why should I have to pay any charges over what normal-hearing people would pay?
And it's nice that some random fan production has captions. But we're not talking about captions. We're talking about moving shows from TV to the Internet. Those shows are captioned now. They NEED to be captioned in the future when they move online. Throwing me a total red herring that I have no interest in does not solve the problem.
I'd still also like someone to show me the plans for making sure these offerings are accessible.
Exactly why repeated FOIA requests must be filed, and if they try to hide behind excuses to not give us all the data, repeated lawsuits must be filed.
I sure hope that other pilot got a talking-to for putting other people in danger, as stuff falling out of overhead bins can severely injure people.
I wonder how pathetic those latches are if they open during a sharp turn? The bins should be latched securely enough to withstand any maneuver the aircraft is capable of within design spec. Clearly, someone got cheap.
So... you're OK with a literal last-minute ("we'll release something by the end of the year"), half-assed (no info describing what the records mean), lame (I'm sure there's a lot missing from this report) effort that wasn't going to be out in the first place ("we don't want to hurt the profits of lazy airlines who don't give a shit about their customers that they just see as walking wallets")?
Got it.
Great. Do you fly an airline, and which one is it, so I can avoid them for life because now I know they hire pilots who don't care about very real concerns?
So in other words you think that solving new problems by using solutions that are already known to work is stupid? Would you seriously walk up to your boss and say "No, we can't use that idea to fix this problem, because it's an old idea and not a new one, even though it's already known to work"? You'd deserve every blank confused stare you got.
You don't fix problems by trying wacky new things that you have no confidence in. You do things that are tried and true.
Oh, and by the way, did you ever consider that the shape is old but the rest is not?
Typical -- armchair space program "experts" flapping their lips and showing how little they really know. Uninformed BS like this is EXACTLY WHY we get people screaming that the space program wastes a ton of money, blah blah blah blah fucking blah, when it gets 1/2 of 1% of the budget.
Let's try not sending billions to DoD which has gotten caught paying for hookers on government-issued, taxpayer-funded credit cards.
Right?
RIGHT??
HELLO, IS ANYONE LISTENING!?!??!
At least that Windows Mobile crap is an option, not standard, at least as ar as I know.
Which system (either or both) has some sort of provision to display subtitles/captions over HDMI, and do all discs in that format have it?
That'll help me figure out which one I prefer, though I still probably won't buy a system yet.
That's when I back over the grass instead.
I love my VW GTI and this is my 3rd VW. Never had a problem with the previous two. Cars tend to be OK as long as you take good care of them unless you have the bad luck to get a lemon (which unfortunately does happen, even with Hondas like the one you have).
It's a real shame that none of the Japanese automakers have managed to hire some of the good designers from the German builders to get that famous reliability combined with that famous usability.
They'd have a hit for sure.
Your TV picks up large gorillas?
They exist but cost about $1000. I, too, think dualformat for $500 or less is what people need. I'd be willing to spend that much, but not more, on being able to play everything out there.
Why can't these shortsighted people realize that their inability to work out a solution and sitting there screaming "Our format rocks, yours sucks!" is just keeping everyone away?
Oh there will be some complaints about any system for anything, but then again we didn't get the big hissyfits until, say, the Diebold e-voting fuss. It was all minor stuff. Now, when e-voting has been proven over and over to be a cause of trouble, we're rushing to implement it, and then when more problems are found, we ... try to keep e-voting?
Better to stuck with the system that wasn't anywhere near as controversial.
Was it exactly the same system, though? (this is a serious question) - also, since states are separate from one another, Ohio wouldn't be affected by Florida anyhow.
I haven't tried to buy anything from the itunes store, but I've been meaning to try a preview to see if the previews have it. If you try it, do let us know.
Not if the law said that it only applied to American-produced or distributed content meant for American audiences. And don't the networks block non-US addresses from viewing shows already? (I've never looked at their services but I remember reading about such blocks).
What's wrong with the method that worked fine for years that no one (at least not enough to get into the press) complained about? Making everything electronic isn't the answer to everything.
Two different versions of the video, since I think YouTube flattens the video (I've never tried to upload), one with subtitles and one without, is how I'd do it. Also, make sure to make your subtitles white with black backgrounds to be most easily readable against any background color.
You could look in Flash instruction guides, but I've heard enough gripes about how Youtube screws up submissions that I wouldn't be surprised if an additional layer containing captions got lost at upload.
I hope that helps but I don't know enough about Flash authoring yet to be much use.