[access-uk] Re: Buying audio described dvds
- From: "Matthew Allbones" <mallbones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 11:21:55 +0100
T currenlty use the Tesco's rental site and this has AD listings for
rental.
Having had a very breif chat with soomeone )(Gill Whitehead I think) at
RNIB I think they created the videos and so they are the only source.
The DVD's are a differnet issue as it is entirely hit and miss as to
whether the UK produciton company schedules the AD soundtrack in to the
dvd prodcution,, even when an AD soundtrack has been created for the
cinema release.
This does seem really perverse to me but then I know that Gill is
continuing to lobby the production companies, with some reasonable
success.
I do thin the bigger issue is why this is not happening on all dvd
releases, it isn't as though there is a shortage of subtitled dvds is
it?
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chris Hallsworth
Sent: 06 October 2007 18:55
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Buying audio described dvds
Yeah that's a good idea, however RNIB should sell them as well, in my
view.
Can't understand to be honest why they sell AD videos but not AD DVD's?
Chris Hallsworth
BrailleNote mPower user
Website: www.chrishallsworth.co.nr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wendy Sharpe" <w.sharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 9:26 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Buying audio described dvds
Friends
I have been looking around, and there is a long article about this and
other
matters on the following site:
http://www.tvhelp.org.uk/audes/dvd.html
RNIB also have a list of audio described DVD's, but at the bottom it
says
they don't sell them. I think perhaps they should, as all the
information I
have gleaned so far says that you can only tell if a DVD is audio
described
by examining the box. It also says that rental DVD's aren't always in
their
original boxes, so you can't tell anyway.
I think the suggestion that suppliers like Play.com and Amazon should be
asked to include this information is perhaps one way we can draw this
problem to their attention. Perhaps they could include audio described
DVD's as a separate category so that we could find them easily and not
buy
the wrong version.
Wendy
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of
Spring.flower
Sent: 29 September 2007 19:53
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Buying audio described dvds
It certainly needs looking in to.
Trace
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From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 7:18 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Buying audio described dvds
> Trace - the thing is for me, is that I might buy a title that's in a
sale,
> if I knew it had AD, that I might not otherwise go for; it's just that
> when
> looking at the dvd offers on Play.com, they never say if the title
comes
> with AD or not, and I have found that some have, and some have not! -
>
> Andy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Spring.flower" <spring.flower@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 7:07 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Buying audio described dvds
>
>
> | I've been wondering about where specifically to go to in order to
get
> dvd's
> | with AD on them, is there no specific place for us blind folk? via
the
> rnib
> | or something?
> |
> | Trace
> |
> | ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> | To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> | Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 10:34 AM
> | Subject: [access-uk] Buying audio described dvds
> |
> |
> | > Hi all -
> | >
> | > I usually buy my dvds from play.com.
> | >
> | > In some cases there is more than one release of the dvd, and it
seems
> hit
> | > and miss as to whether I get the one with AD or not! Play.com
never
> say
> if
> | > the dvd has AD, and I have bought movies that have not had AD on
them,
> | > only
> | > to find that there is a release version that does. Is there a way
of
> | > finding
> | > out the product number or something that identifies it as being
the
> one
> | > with
> | > an ad sound track? Where do others buy from in order to be sure of
> getting
> | > the release that has AD. I use Play because their prices are very
> | > competitive, and they offer free delivery, but am disappointed
when
> for
> | > example, I buy 'the English patient' only to find that there is an
AD
> | > version of it that I could have got from somewhere else. Perhaps
it
> would
> | > be
> | > useful to contact Play and maybe
> | > Amazon to suggest they include AD info in their description of the
> disk -
> | >
> | > Andy
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