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LATEST REPORTS:
UK
Film Council
Digital Screen Network
Thanks to the UK Film Council, around a quarter of UK cinemas will be equipped with new digital projection equipment over the next year or so. In return, cinemas will be required to show a broader range of films on a regular basis.
These systems can also display subtitles. Adaptations can be made to include audio description features too. Subtitle and audio description 'files' are readily available for most popular cinema releases.
It is hoped that these 'access' features will be utilised, to enable hearing and visually impaired people to enjoy digital cinema.
Full details and many links HERE
Guardian
Newspaper articles HERE
and HERE
BBC 'Ouch' article HERE
The
Times Newspaper HERE
NIFTC
£70,000 fund to make cinemas in Northern Ireland accessible... Belfast
Telegraph article
Coming
soon: Ireland will be the world’s first entirely digital cinema
nation - All cinemas will be capable of screening almost every popular
film with subtitles.
Read
more:
Digit
mag
BBC News
PC World
BBC
News reports:
ONE
: TWO
: THREE
BBC Newsround HERE
BBC Radio 4 HERE
Cinema
Business magazine ONE
: TWO
Sky
News HERE
New
Scientist HERE
RNIB
'10 years of audio description' HERE
Lifestyle
magazine HERE
Transport
for all magazine HERE
Government
Information HERE
(scroll down to 'cinema')
The
Scotsman newspaper HERE
Grants
for cinemas to widen Cinema Access in Northern Ireland -
Full details HERE and
HERE
Local
UK news reports / links:
Yourable.com
HERE
(main UK disability website)
Royal
Assoc. for Deaf People (RAD) HERE
British
Deaf Association (BDA) HERE
RNIB
HERE
PR
Newswire HERE
ITFC
HERE
(Independent Television Facilities Centre)
DTS
ONE
: TWO
(Digital Theater Systems)
Dolby:
HERE
Ofcom
(related) HERE
LA
Times US (related) HERE
Guardian
newspaper (related) HERE
Government/Ofcom
(related) HERE
Read the official UK Film Council press release on accessible
cinema HERE