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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 670 |
| | Posted: | | | | I am getting more and more DVD's that has a descriptive audio track, meant for the visually impaired, it seems (the first one I got of these was Scary Movie 4 - I actually thought they meant it as a joke).
It doesn't really fit in as Commentary, so the ones I ahve so far are all entered as Other (not by me). Bottom line: We need a new audio "language" called "Descriptive" or something along those lines... | | | | The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. (William Gibson) |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | I've noticed a couple of these recently on some discs as well. I agree for the need of some sort of a descriptive language choice for these oddities...  | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | A checkbox would probably do the job just as well. That way you could keep the language info as well. |
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| Registered: August 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,807 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting northbloke: Quote:
A checkbox would probably do the job just as well. That way you could keep the language info as well. Good thinking. Maybe another checkbox could be used for Commentaries. | | | | -- Enry |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 2,366 |
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 |  Posts: 56 |
| | Posted: | | | | I really like the idea, but there is a main problem: The descriptive audio track can be in a different language than the local country has. For example, the German DVD of "Bad Santa" has an English audio description track... |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,744 |
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| Registered: August 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,807 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Reihnold: Quote:
I really like the idea, but there is a main problem: The descriptive audio track can be in a different language than the local country has. For example, the German DVD of "Bad Santa" has an English audio description track... True, I have some Italian DVDs with English Descriptive Audio as well. But it seems to me that northbloke's suggestion just aimed to sort out that issue Quoting northbloke: Quote:
A checkbox would probably do the job just as well. That way you could keep the language info as well. | | | | -- Enry | | | | Last edited: by White Pongo, Jr. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,819 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree with this.
At the moment having the track listed as 'Other' and adding 'Audio Description Track' to Other Features is inelegant.
I think the track should be listed as the language it is in with a tick box to indicate if it's AD. |
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| Registered: April 10, 2007 | | Posts: 51 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Pantheon: Quote:
I think the track should be listed as the language it is in with a tick box to indicate if it's AD. I agree |
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| Registered: May 25, 2007 | | Posts: 176 |
| | Posted: | | | | Agree. Ideally, it should be defined like any other audio track, with a checkbox to indicate that it i for the hearing impared (or whatever wording Ken prefers). |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting wintermute115: Quote:
Agree. Ideally, it should be defined like any other audio track, with a checkbox to indicate that it i for the hearing impared (or whatever wording Ken prefers). I think you mean "for the visually impaired." I doubt that descriptive audio would be of much use to someone who is hearing impaired.  | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| Registered: May 25, 2007 | | Posts: 176 |
| | Posted: | | | | Right, yes. I was thinking of subtitles.
Still, the same principle applies in both cases. |
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