Sony Working on Special Subtitle Glasses for Movies

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These specs will seemingly project scrolling text on a cinema screen, allowing hearing impaired viewers to see a movie anytime they want rather than at limited showings.

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[Montezuma]

Oh, thank you God!!! My girlfriend has difficulty with her hearing and it is a nightmare when we go to see a movie at any of the local theaters. This has been a product that has long needed to be realized.

 

[el33t]

Cool. I sometime have a hard time interpreting the western accent. This will surely help.

 

[dthx]

This kind of glasses exist for at least 10 years already. A few theatres and operas in Paris already propose this service and the glasses worked quite well (giving the feeling that the subtitles are at the same depth as the stage, not just in front of your eyes). Nothing new here!

 

[Pyree]

Green LED text? No outline on the font to avoid subtitle from blending with background? So there will be problem in seeing the subtitle if the background is also green? (remember what happen in Austin Power).

 

[alidan]

this is good, however the problem is getting the text in the same focal range as the movie...

think it would be possible to have a polarized type of subtital? like in 3d movies, except not for 3d, just to reveal the text to them while the rest of the theater barely sees the text at all.

 

[Guest]

Gee M-M-Mr Tracy, I-I-I think I might have seen these s-s-somewhere before

http/www.memorabilia4u.com/product/1017

 

[CaedenV]

wouldn't scrolling text be a bit distracting? Why not just have good old subtitles? They have worked well for me for years (not deaf, just watch a lot of anime/foreign films). Also, I am fairly sure that this tech has existed for years... perhaps it just is not standardized enough to make it cheap and available.

 

[ram1009]

I am HOH and therefore very aware of being ignored by people like Netflix. This is interesting technology whether it's new or not. There's actually a law that states that such content must be made available to deaf & HOH on an equal basis. Obviously this law as well as enforcement has been largely ignored for far too long. Try watching a movie with the sound muted sometime if you're unsympathetic to this cause.

 

[gm0n3y]

If they can pair this with speech to text software and provide deaf people with subtitles in real time for people talking to them, that would be an amazing and extremely useful product.

 

[Guest]

would also be a good language learning tool if the subtitles or the voice (noth both) was in the language you were learning.

 

[Guest]

They showcased this last month to the National Assoc of Theater Owners (cinema owners industry group) in Vegas.

Alex Varley
Media Access Australia
www.mediaaccess.org.au

 

[derekbrandon]

There are currently around 750 English language subtitled shows around the UK every week, of the latest films, as listed here: (Google: subtitled cinema).

Subtitles on the cinema screen, for all to see. Although this is the preferred way to view cinema subtitles amongst most people that need them to enjoy a film, it requires cinemas to put on separate shows. Most people can't work their lives around one or two cinema shows a week, so currently, most people that would like to attend subtitled cinema shows can't do so. There's not enough choice of films and showtimes.

A 'personal' subtitle system, like the Sony specs mentioned, or seat mounted displays, like they have in the US, would give people a better choice of films and showtimes, which would of course result in more people attending the cinema, purchasing popcorn & drinks etc.

Derek Brandon