Same problem exists on Audio description. Indeed the same content sometimes
can be seen with different narrators and different descriptions, as if the copyright to the AD was not theirs, and it had to be redone. Also of course
at the moment there is still no ad on ch 4 channels, or signing I'm told.
They should get these issues over what by now should be mainstream
provisions for their audiences fixed and made robust and standard and the content providers need to be supplying these services as part of the package
as standard and also in a form that catch up and on demand online systems
can use as standard.
The word should be, design for access from the start and then you won't
have the problems later on, after all even old films like The Blob and the
Fly are now audio described and available. It makes no sense to me why all
of these services cannot be just glued onto the production budget at the
start of the making of them.
Its blatant discrimination and counter productive from the cost point of
view.
Brian
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... on the Channel Four 'family' of Freeview channels, but you can detect
the frenetic paddling as the swan smoothly glides across the surface.
We watched a Film 4 movie a couple of nights ago. If I didn't kow better (yeah, right!) I'd guess the subtitling was being done real-time by a
human typing as rapidly as possible.
Had we still been in the good old days of GVG200s, etc, I'd suggest they
were being DSK'ed over the entire network output.
Their disappearance wasn't synced to advertisement breaks, in fact they persisted right through one break, creating some unintended comedy, as the last line of the earlier dialogue fitted amazingly well with some of the
more vacuuous adverts.
Whatever they were using (an Aston with an A2D on the output?), they had serious difficulty when the words ran to two lines - the top line
persisted through several shot changes. You could just about work it out
as long as you read the bottom line and ignored the upper one.
You have to feel for the staff in these circumstances. They obviously lost
a huge amount of metadata during the 'event', and things are far from back
to normal.
The surprise for me, regarding the subtitles, is that the subtitle data doesn't seem to be provided to broadcasters as standard, along with
picture and soundtracks.
I've seen a lot of films broadcast on lower-bandwidth channels, where they "apologise" for no subtitles, even though the film in question has been
shown elsewhere with them. So they evidently exist, there seems no
obligation for the broadcasters to bother. And subtitle data, even for a feature film, must be a tiny amount of storage, compared to any of the
other streams.
Meanwhile at C4, things must be "interesting" still...
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