[access-uk] Re: I'm outraged!

  • From: "Vanja Sudar" <vanja@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 12:42:46 +0100

Hi Damon, I have no idea if it was broadcast over the satellite, but I don't 
think so because when talking to a friend from New York, ABC was showing it 
over there between 9 and 11:30, which would mean 2 to 4:30 our time,  plus as 
you said, all those other countries must have needed time to  have had it 
translated in to their local languages. It is interesting to know though that 
this is how audio description companies work. I thought that they audio 
describe entire series before it's even broadcast. If what you say is how they 
work (and I have no reason not to believe you, you working for the BBC and all 
*smiles*), then it's a bit more of a reason for me to be sympathetic to them. 
Like I said, it's being repeated tomorrow and on Friday. Of course I'd hope 
that tomorrow's would be audio described, but if not, Friday's surely would be. 
Now I got to go and camp somewhere in the middle of nowhere and totally 
disconnect myself from the world so I don't find out what actually happened! 
Just got to hope that in my camping adventures the smoke monster doesn't get me!
Vanja
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Damon Rose 
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 9:49 AM
  Subject: [access-uk] Re: I'm outraged!


  Hi Vanja. I'm a huge Lost fan and I Sky plussed it overnight, ready to watch 
later.

  I held out a little hope that they might put audio description on it, but 
figured it might be too much work for the AD company. They usually need a day 
or two turnaround time and, as this episode was simulcast with west coast 
america at 5am this morning, they may well have had no time at all to describe 
it.

  Was it a direct simulcast from ABC in America, down the line? Or did sky 
physically have the video in advance and fire it up from their headquarters in 
London? If so, how many days had they had it for?

  If they'd had it a few days there may have been time. However, the 
description company may not have been able to meet that deadline. Sky only 
decided in the middle of last week that they'd be carrying it. 

  Flash Forward on Channel 5 is broadcast in the UK a couple of days after the 
US broadcast and its first airing doesn't have AD on Five. But it's Friday 
showing does. It's all about time taken.

  And, with such a big global tv event like finding out why the hell they were 
on that island, perhaps ABC were being very guarded by not letting anyone have 
the tapes until it aired in the US. Oh but actually this can't be true because 
I know it went out live in Spain and Portugal too, so presumably they would've 
needed a bit of time to dub it into their local language. 

  If you're angry, I'd bring it up. I think it's a shame it wasn't audio 
described because, as you say, I've now got to avoid the facebook, the internet 
and my friends who watch it, until an AD version appears. And I suspect it 
won't be audio described until Friday's usual showing. 

  Lets find out. 


























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  From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Vanja Sudar
  Sent: 24 May 2010 05:14
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [access-uk] I'm outraged!


  I'm so pissed off beyond belief! Probably like many people across the country 
and the world, I woke up early to watch lost, the last episode of it. Yet, for 
hell knows what reason it's not audio described! Every episode on sky 1 was 
audio described, yet this last, probably most crusual one is not being audio 
described! Maybe it's a technical fault and that is probably what it is, but it 
is so so so not fair! I understand that the episode is being repeated again 
tomorrow at 9 PM, but it is still unfair that everyone will be talking about it 
and that I have to wait because sky can't be bothered to fix something that 
might not be importart to the majoritty of viewers, but it is still important!

  I don't know if any of you watch lost and have just now attempted to watch 
this last episode, but I would assume you're experiencing the same problem. 
This is just umbelievable!

  I'm sorry, this is probably somewhat off topic, but I'm so angry and I had to 
let it off my chest somewhere and especially since not many other people are 
awake this time of the morning, this seemed like the perfect place.
  Vanja
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