Sony and WGBH Partner on Delivering Descriptive Video Service on
DVDsSONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT PARTNERS WITH WGBH MEDIA ACCESS
GROUP
TO DELIVER DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO SERVICE ON HOME VIDEO TITLES
Culver City, Calif. (Sept 3, 2009) - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
will partner with WGBH Media Access Group to release select film titles
on DVD with
Descriptive Video Service®, or DVS® as an optional feature for audiences
who are blind or have low vision. Descriptive Video Service provides
carefully
crafted narration of key visual elements inserted into natural pauses in
dialogue. Key visual elements are those which viewers with vision loss
would ordinarily
miss and include actions, costumes, gestures, facial expressions, scene
changes and onscreen text. On DVD and Blu-rayT, the DVS track is an
Audio option,
listed alongside alternative languages, where the menu selection will
read "English Audio Descriptive Service."
The ability to enjoy movies with descriptive narration on DVD and
Blu-ray DiscT is extremely important to the nation's 12 million movie
fans with vision
loss, and is the single most requested service of the Media Access
Group. Among the first Sony Pictures Home Entertainment titles to be
released with the
description feature are The Taking of Pelham 123, The Ugly Truth, Julie
& Julia and District 9.
Sony Pictures has been a leader over the last decade in providing
descriptive audio for theatrical releases in movie theaters equipped
with WGBH's Motion
Picture Access, or MoPix® systems. Beginning in the fall of 2009, all
Sony Pictures theatrical releases with descriptive audio will also
include the feature
when they arrive on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
About The Media Access Group at WGBH
The Media Access Group at WGBH includes The Caption Center, the world's
first captioning agency, founded in 1972; Descriptive Video Service
(DVS), which
has made television, film and video more accessible to blind and
visually impaired audiences since 1990; and the Carl and Ruth Shapiro
Family National
Center for Accessible Media (NCAM), a research and development entity
that builds on the success of WGBH's access service departments to make
existing
and emerging technologies more accessible. Members of the Media Access
Group's collective staff represent the leading resources and experts in
their fields.
Additional information about the Media Access Group at WGBH can be found
at www.mediaaccessgroupwgbh.org <
http://
www.mediaaccessgroupwgbh.org/> .
The Media Access Group maintains a list of DVDs with DVS at this page of
its site:
<http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/resources/accessible-dvds.html>http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/resources/accessible-dvds.html
Follow the Media Access Group on Facebook:
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Media-Access-Group-at-WGBH/91628220291?ref=ts>http://www.facebook.com/pages/Media-Access-Group-at-WGBH/91628220291?ref=ts
About Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is a Sony Pictures Entertainment
company. SPE is a division of Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary
of Tokyo-based
Sony Corporation. SPHE's global operations encompass motion picture
production and distribution; television production and distribution;
digital contest
creation and distribution; worldwide channel investments; home
entertainment acquisition and distribution; operation of studio
facilities; development
of new entertainment products, services and technologies; and
distribution of filmed entertainment in 67 countries. Sony Pictures
Entertainment can be
found on the World Wide Web at
<http://www.sonypictures.com/>http://www.sonypictures.com
<http://
www.sonypictures.com/> .
Contacts:
Jason Allen
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
<mailto:Jason_allen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>Jason_allen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
310- 244-3502
Mary Watkins
Media Access Group at WGBH
<mailto:Mary_watkins@xxxxxxxx>Mary_watkins@xxxxxxxx
617-300-3700
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