While the government is at it, they should also require a don't try this at home warning for every dangerous stunt.
Some people should just stay home.
It would also result in many patrons not going out to movies. The last thing I want to see running across the screen is words, unless I was watching some sort of international movie that was not in English.
It would be far better to ensure Hollywood has that on the DVD’s for sale, if they don’t already.
Heh heh. Obama is now going after Hollywood.
Ah, Schadenfreude...
Couldn’t private companies offer an app that would do this and which could be bought by those who need it? Instead of demanding businesses install such expensive equipment? I support accommodating the disabled but this I would equate more with requiring a business make sure they have trained service dogs available for patrons rather than just requiring service dogs be allowed in with their disabled owner.
Sit the people who are hard of hearing next to the speakers, and the people who are seeing impaired up next to the screen.
While the government is at it, they should also require a don't try this at home warning for every dangerous stunt.
Listen!
Do you smell that?
How about the rights of deaf and blind people to be airline pilots? Or the rights of atheists to be Catholic Priests? Or the rights of midgets to join the NBA?
I have poor eyesight myself (but am not blind), but it really stretches my imagination to see how theatres could be forced to accommodate blind people. You can’t make brail movies.
There’s nothing holding them back from going.
Excellent. Now if they’d only make arrangements for dead patrons, the roster of attendees would be complete.
>> Disability associations say that the new regulation will make sure that blind and deaf people can appreciate the latest blockbuster just like everyone else
That’s an impossibility, Julian.
I think it’s great that we collectively strive to improve the lives of the disadvantaged, but to make law about the things stated in the article??? That’s asinine, and an unnecessary burden on the cinema industry in this case.
Similar rules have been in place for broadcast television for years. Closed captioning and descriptive video service.
However, broadcast uses the public airwaves, so the FCC has jusrisdiction to dictate terms of use.
What authority does the government have to dictate what a private movie producer and a private movie theater must do? It is Bob Dole’s ADA.
GREAT!
Now, in accordance with the 1995 law that ALL regulations passed BY Congress MUST apply to Congress & Staff, this new regulation will FIRST be enacted to cover the totally BLIND & DEAF Congress BEFORE it is applied anywhere else.
Implementation of the Congressional portion of this will be handled by the Tea Party.
Then, the only thing missing would be voter registration at the concession stand.
Seems far better to simply have the studios prepare and make available for download from the Internet such audio augmentation for the blind.
As to the deaf, I imagine something similar could be worked out that could be downloaded to glasses. Far better if you’ve such a handicap to own and take such a system in to the theater on your own than to reuse equipment from the theater—yuck!
And better economics all around, I’m sure.
Everyone should read Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”, or see the excellent short film “2081” based on the story. It is a perfect depiction of the liberal notion of “fairness”.
Just let the blind people bring their seeing-eye dogs to the movies, then the dogs can whisper to them what is going on.
The freaking government lunatics have taken over the asylum...
No joke