[announce] Disney-Pixar's "Up" Released with Descriptive Narration

[Eric Bridges]

Disney-Pixar's "Up" Released with Descriptive Narration on Blu-ray, DVD 

and for Download on iTunes

 

November 13, 2009

 

In May of 2009, the Media Access Group at WGBH created a Descriptive Video
ServiceR (DVSR) track for the theatrical release of Disney-Pixar's "Up"
which

made the film more meaningful and accessible to movie patrons who are blind
or have low vision.

 

The Media Access Group is proud to share the news that the DVS track for
"Up" is included on the film's Blu-ray and DVD releases (available wherever
discs

are sold) and- a first for Disney, Apple and WGBH- as a digital iTunes
release* available to download at this page of the iTunes site:

 

"Up" (For blind viewers, audio description, DVS) <

http://tinyurl.com/yjtkg8f> 

 

DVS describes, via narration inserted into natural pauses in dialogue,
information about actions, costumes, gestures, facial expressions, scene
changes,

and on-screen text that viewers who are blind have low vision would
ordinarily miss. DVS was developed by WGBH for television in 1990, and
expanded in

1997 to movies screened in theaters equipped with WGBH's MoPixR technologies
(mopix.org).

 

About Disney-Pixar's "Up"

Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios take moviegoers up, up and
away on one of the funniest adventures of all time with their latest
comedy-fantasy.

"Up" follows the uplifting tale of a 78-year-old balloon salesman Carl
Fredricksen, who finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure
when he

ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South
America. But he discovers all too late that his biggest nightmare has stowed

on the trip: an overly optimistic 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named
Russell.  Their journey to a lost world, where they encounter some strange,
exotic

and surprising characters, is filled with hilarity, emotion and wildly
imaginative adventure.

 

Where and how the DVS tracks for "Up" are available

 

- Blu-ray - DVS audio is automatically packaged within the Blu-ray disc.
Consumers can find "English Descriptive Video Service 2.0" as an option
within

the Audio Options menu on any Blu-ray version of "Up."

 

- DVD - DVS audio is automatically packaged within the DVD. Consumers can
find "English Descriptive Video Service 2.0" as an option within the Audio
Options

menu on all DVD versions of "Up."

 

- *iTunes - When purchasing the movie from iTunes, please note that there
are three options to choose from and one of these includes DVS. The DVS
version

includes description audible to all users ("Up" For blind viewers, audio
description, DVS) available at the link above or by searching the iTunes
store

for Up DVS. The standard version (SD) and a high definition (HD) version on
iTunes do not include the description track. 

 

For a list of additional DVD and Blu-ray releases with DVS, as well as
television programs that air with DVS, please visit:  

<http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/description.html>

 

About The Media Access Group at WGBH

In addition to DVS, the Media Access Group <access.wgbh.org> includes The
Caption Center, the world's first captioning agency (est. 1972), and the
Carl

and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM, est.
1992), 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. Become a fan of the Media
Access Group on Facebook.

 

About WGBH

WGBH Boston <wgbh.org <

http://www.wgbh.org

> is America's preeminent public broadcaster, producing such celebrated
national PBS series as Masterpiece, Antiques Roadshow, Frontline, Nova,
American

Experience, Arthur, Curious George and more than a dozen other award-winning
primetime, lifestyle and children's series. WGBH is the leading producer of

online content for pbs.org-- one of the most-visited dot-org sites on the
Internet-- a major producer for public radio and a pioneer in developing
educational

multimedia and new technologies that make media accessible for people with
disabilities. For its efforts, WGBH has been recognized with hundreds of
honors,

including Oscars, Emmys, Peabodys and duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards. 

 

Contact:

 

Mary Watkins, Media Access Group at WGBH, 

mary_watkins at wgbh.org

, 617 300-3700

 

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American Council of the Blind

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