Comments on: iTunes and iPods Now Support Closed-Captioning

By: Mark Sweeney

Mark Sweeney — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:57:02 +0000

Support *sounds* great, but it’s useless without content.

I rely on captions and subtitles for all viewing experiences. I have no problem reading subtitles for movies ripped to my video ipod (5th gen), but would really like a way to include captions in quicktime, from Elgato’s EyeTV - a program that records TV shows onto my computer (mac). It was the only one that had Closed Caption capability that I could find.

While I can burn DVDs of things I record that still show closed captions, there is no way to export shows to quicktime that play on an ipod and still keep the closed captions.

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By: Raymond Luczak

Raymond Luczak — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:13:16 +0000

Hello–

All this is great news, but what’s even more embarrassing is the fact that Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs, has hearing loss in at least one ear.

I remember the first iPod and how impressed I was by its volume. It was the first media player that was loud enough for my ears, and I couldn’t figure out why that was so until I read somewhere that Steve Jobs needed a little extra volume boost to satisfy HIS own ears. :-/ We need to remind the hearing media about Steve Jobs’s hearing loss problem however minor it may seem as a way of pushing Steve Jobs and Apple to add closed-captioning to the offerings on iTunes.

Raymond Luczak
BOOKS * FILMS * PLAYS
http://www.raymondluczak.com/

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i see words: iTunes and closed captioning « Inaudible Nonsense — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:49:13 +0000

[…] adds closed captioning support” meme has already made its way around the deaf blogosphere. Like here. I’m happy to know this; although, it doesn’t appear there are actually any videos that […]

By: Noelle

Noelle — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:35:26 +0000

The thing though, is that the networks don’t include those captioning decoder files when they submit them to iTunes or on their network websites. NBC is supposed to have closed-captioning for its television shows offered online on its website.

By: Nicole Crowe

Nicole Crowe — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:34:36 +0000

The captioning decoder files have already been created on all of the major networks which is pulled by our televisions. iTunes just needs to embed that file within the file you are downloading and enable it to be displayed on the iPod/Apple TV. The work has already been done, the wheel does not need to be reinvented, so let’s utilize those files by including them on all digital content. Enough about the font size, I read the lyrics on my Nano all the time, and I have no problem with the tiny print. I’m deaf, not blind. As for RLM - are you amish? What planet did you drop off of?

By: RLM

RLM — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:40:44 +0000

Shane,

Bob’s vlogs are not purely communicated in ASL. His vlogs are more like mangled SimCom. I rather read the texts of his vlog message than painstakingly watch his signings. Bob have no eloquent ASL skills as too many deaf people come to tell me. Those deaf individuals ever made fun of Bob’s signings like community (”M” on three fingers from both hands).

My ASL signing style also isn’t great anyway. Althought, I am culturally deaf myself, attended the residential school and had deaf parent and cousins. I am still not satisifed with my ASL signings.

Handful of deaf people have poise and grace within their ASL signings.

Robert L. Mason (RLM)

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:01:11 +0000

Great news! I’m glad to hear that Apple is listening to the deaf and hard of hearing community.

Interpreting ASL (Bob’s Vlogs) is vastly different than converting spoken English to text.

I always looked for the lyrics inside of CDs. This will make it so much easier to follow songs now.

By: Noelle

Noelle — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:20:01 +0000

Your post is just plain silly.

By: RLM

RLM — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:06:03 +0000

We could survive without relying too much on digital technology to make something out of our lives. More to life than watching some tv shows or movies on mobile technology!

You, Adam, ought to read “Technopoly”, a non-fiction book to see how we are too obessesed with the existence of digital technology.

Deaf people have been better off without the use of telephone for more than 100 years. The existence of telephone really destroy the concept of serenity and social courtesy like calling hearing people late at night, etc.

Social events blossomed for deaf people without use of telephone!

We ought to worry more about our educational system of the deaf than any inconvienence within digital technology. Enjoy life without worrying what hearing people have stuffs to enjoy a superficial life.

You are always wrong on many deaf issues from the Unity for Gallaudet to other issues! You whine about such inconvienence of unworkable cochlear implant device in Sri Lanka due to moist environment. Come on! Live without technology around us.

I can’t wait for the Neo-Luddities movement taking the place in our society in the near future to say enuff with digital technology to trivialize our human existence.

Robert L. Mason (RLM)