Comments on: iTunes betray us II

By: Trina

Trina — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:08:54 +0000

I filled out the complaint form, too. Hopefully enough Deaf/HOH will complain. Funny how FCC requires cc on tv’s of a certain size but not on dvd or new items. Should be regulated.

By: iballoon

iballoon — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:33:05 +0000

Windows, I even hear about AOL that will have some video clip with subtitle, but they brought only few. :-/ It’s more like small pronmise they made.

Gosh, I hope Apple don’t broke the promise. Since they place the big icon at bottom of that accessibility page from apple.com

By: Windows

Windows — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:45:52 +0000

Even Windows Media player, years ago, claimed that it will provide captioning support on Windows Media. But I have never seen any captioned movies from Windows Media Player. Even one Deaf I know that works for Microsoft promised that. It never came, it is full of broken promises.

I wonder Apple will promise that in Leopard? We will wait and see.

By: gnarlydorkette

gnarlydorkette — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:37:58 +0000

I just submitted my complaint so hopefully they will become overwhelmed !

By: iballoon

iballoon — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:48:25 +0000

Yeah, I have aware of Leopard that offer Quicktime with Closed Caption. I guess we shall have to wait until next year when it release.

Always being little behind for silent world. lol

By: Adam Betts

Adam Betts — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:13:15 +0000

I was pretty disappointed too, I’ve sent my feedback in when they added TV Shows to iTunes and I got a reply saying they have no plans of adding CC support but will reconsider in the future.

I’ll send another for movies. They really have to add it at some point.

Somewhat related, upcoming Mac OS X Leopard will automatically display CEA-608 closed captioning:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/accessibility.html

I have a feeling that this will work with iTunes tv shows/movies.