[ad-international] Universal - audio description on DVD

[Irwin Hott]

Great news to share:
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has joined Sony Pictures by committing to release
the Descriptive Video Service® (DVS®) track created for theatrical release of films
on the DVD and Blu-Ray versions of those films. The Media Access Group at WGBH, which
creates both the closed captioning and DVS via our Motion Picture Access (MoPix)
effort, is most grateful to Universal for this major step forward. The excitement
among description fans generated by the Sony announcement just a few weeks ago will
no doubt be echoed by the latest good news. Any comments and feedback we receive
are shared with these studios (so hit reply and send us a note!), and will also be
used to convince additional studios' home entertainment divisions to get on board
the DVS on DVD train (and beyond this, to online streaming/downloading).
More about DVS can be found at this page of our site:
http://dvs.wgbh.org
Write to us at
access at wgbh.org
Follow the Media Access Group on Facebook (we posted this great info there first!)
Here now is a list of DVD and Blu-Ray titles that will include DVS as an option.
Additional DVD and Blu-Ray titles and release dates will be shared when we learn
them. We understand the DVD packages will have indicate availability of DVS, though
the print on DVD packages tends to be microscopic.  We'll be confirming that the
DVS track is on each disk, and will update our DVS on DVD Web site accordingly.
Land of the Lost (Universal) Available Now
The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three (Sony) Nov 3
The Ugly Truth (Sony) Nov 10
Bruno (Universal) Nov 17
Funny People (Universal) Nov 24
Julie and Julia (Sony) Dec 8
Public Enemies (Universal) Dec 8
District 9 (Sony) (Dec 29)
After the first of the year:
Love Happens (Universal)
Couples Retreat (Universal)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Sony)
Zombieland (Sony)
The Stepfather (Sony)
...and more to come!
Mary
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Mary Watkins
Director of Communications and Outreach
Media Access Group at WGBH
mary_watkins at wgbh.org
http://access.wgbh.org
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Boston, MA  02135
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