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Love Film, Hate LOVEFiLM
Hello, this is my first ever blog, on any topic, so I’ll start by briefly introducing myself. My name is Matthew Palmer and I am 32 years old. This blog concerns my partner who is hard of hearing. She has reduced hearing in both ears.
One of the ways we relax in the evening, is, like millions of people, watching a bit of TV or a film. So we would get the seven year old into bed, then have a quick look at the Sky TV guide. Now credit to Sky,...
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Category Digital Tags: #subtitlesnow, captions, Deaf, EHRC, Equalities and Human Rights Commission, Hard of Hearing, LOVEFiLM, lovefilm subtitles netflix, Netfix, subtitles
All the Bells – what happens when London 2012 fails to add subtitles
Curious to find out what all this bell ringing lark was about that takes place at percisly 8.12 am on Friday 27th July 2012 is about I watched the video of Martin Creed talking about this in ALL THE BELLS on you tube.
As with ALL of the videos produced by London 2012 and Cultural Olympipad this was another one that WASNT SUBTITLED.
Being deaf I wanted to know what Martin was saying so I used You Tube’s automatic captioning facility (the CC button)...
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Category Arts and Culture, Blogs, Combined Arts, Digital, Music, Subtitles Now Tags: #subtitlesnow, 2012, closed captions, Cultural Olympiad 2012, Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Olympics 2012, Paralympics 2012, subtitles
