Some good news for us Region 1 people... |
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 Jun 18 2006, 08:23 PM
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Studios Settle Suit Over DVD Closed-Captioning
QUOTE Time Warner Inc., Walt Disney Co. and other movie distributors settled a lawsuit brought on behalf of hearing-impaired customers who bought DVDs containing bonus material that wasn't enhanced for people with hearing problems. The studios, which also include Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. and Universal Studios Home Entertainment, deny liability and are settling to avoid further litigation, according to a statement. Under the accord, the studios will provide more closed-captioning, pay $275,000 to nonprofit groups for the deaf and hard-of-hearing and as much as $1.3 million in lawyers' fees. I'd read about this, but I'm glad the studios are (apparently) willing to cooperate... if I understand the suit correctly, this means that they'll actually have to caption the bonus materials on at least their higher-profile new DVDs. Warner and Sony are notorious for not captioning bonus materials here on the other side of the Pond-- and Disney is just as bad about it on both sides... Only one gripe-- I'm surprised Universal was one of the parties to the suit, but Fox wasn't. I've seen far more subtitled bonus material on Universal's DVDs than Fox's in Region 1. |
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Jun 18 2006, 11:16 PM
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How? Over what legal act?
I wonder if we can do the same here? I have tried to find further info but keep throwing up same info. DVDwarrior |
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Jun 20 2006, 12:12 AM
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QUOTE (dvdwarrior @ Jun 18 2006, 11:16 PM)  How? Over what legal act? I wonder if we can do the same here? I have tried to find further info but keep throwing up same info. DVDwarrior Here's the site with information on the class-action suit... not sure if this really reveals anything, but in the interest of information... http://www.dvdcclabelingclasssettlement.com/ |
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Aug 31 2006, 09:08 PM
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QUOTE (codeman38 @ Jun 20 2006, 01:12 AM) QUOTE (dvdwarrior @ Jun 18 2006, 11:16 PM) How? Over what legal act? I wonder if we can do the same here? I have tried to find further info but keep throwing up same info. DVDwarrior Here's the site with information on the class-action suit... not sure if this really reveals anything, but in the interest of information... http://www.dvdcclabelingclasssettlement.com/ It had been while - does you see any difference at new release DVD now getting English subtitle or CC? Cheers DVDwarrior |
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