[Fearless Flyers]

Looks to me the media is trying to find a way to pass off the Ronald Reagan mini series as factual history, by turning off the dialogue and selling it to the Deaf Community in order to recoup their losses.

[goldstategop]

As someone hard of hearing, it pisses me off royally Hollyweird is too cheap to subtitle the supplemental disc on their DVD packages. Not all of us can pick up every word and I resent being made to pay for the assumption I can hear just like every one else.

[StatesEnemy]

What the hell is up with: D(d)eaf?

[Nataku X]

I signed, but do you have a source as to where it says that Hollywood is eschewing English subtitles?

[SamAdams76]

One doesn't need to be deaf or hard-of-hearing to benefit from subtitles. I get up at 5AM and workout on my treadmill. I like to watch DVDs when I am doing this. So that I don't have to have the volume on loud and wake up the rest of the house, I put on the subtitles and can do my workout without making a big racket. I find them very useful for those situations.

[weegee]

I don't understand this. Under President Clinton we had it mandated that our new tvs must include closed captioning technology. Then comes along DVD which contains removable subtitles in multiple languages and they don't want to offer English subtitles anymore (nor closed captioning).

[July 4th]

If you've ever watched the movie "Bloody Sunday," you'll know that it's in English, but you need the subtitles. The accents are far too thick for American ears.

[Welsh Rabbit]

I just bought a newly released DVD. It did not have English under the subtitle menu, as with most of my other DVDs, but it did have closed captioning. I'd still prefer to have the subtitles because the closed captioning text is white.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Also, T.V. Guide has been an issue in the Deaf community lately because they stopped marking which shows are CC'd.

[BSunday]

I hear fine, but my wife and I love to get the widescreen dvds and put the subtitles on. There's a surprizing amount of dialogue that will pass you by in a hearbeat without you even noticing it.