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Shoot me now but why ? Im sat watching a documentary and once again im finding that I cant as im hopelessly distracted/irritated beyond belief by the signer on the bottom right of my screen. Its not even as though the signers are there for every programme, It kind of smacks of the worst kind of tokenism really and whats wrong with sub titles anyway ? My favourite was the signer who was plonked right over the final letter on Countdown.....partiicularly brilliant that one. If this is all thats wrong with my day I guess im lucky but is it unreasonable of me to be irritated by this ?
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Simple answer is yes, they do signing on repeats of the odd programmes in the wee hours for recording purposes by those who need it because people would moan if they done it daytime.
Why no subtitles? signing is more easily understood and those who want subtitles can select them on their tv/stb if they wish.
Im expecting to get buried for even daresing to bring it up and id just like to say that I hope my post doesnt just smack of lack of empathy . I count my blessings that im not deaf and I wouldnt want to be in the business of upsetting folks who are .
The same could be true for signing if it was put on the red button. Then it could be available for every program without annoying anyone.
At the time that digital TV was being designed - attempts were made to have closed assigning using avatars - but it just did not work (and it is not clear even now that this can be down) . and the use of a second video stream was just not possible on the mux then ( and to get around scheduling issues it would double the number of video stream needed )- or to put it another way halve the number of PSB channels.
The PSB quota being 10% was easy to accommodate with overnight broadcasting and adding signing to some Kids/ News Channel during the day at key times.
the Non PSB quota is on the whole being met by the broadcaster buying space on the community channel.
These may not meet the lobbying interests of the d(D)eaf community who would like signing in peak time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi71xyYJbfk
or this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO3c6_BT3HM
I must admit to being very annoyed if I record a programme only to find there's a wildly gesticulating homunculus in the bottom right corner. And then I feel guilty about being annoyed.
if anything there arn't enough signed tv programmes, im sure people how are deaf or are hard of hearing would appreciate it if there were signed tv programs during the day, doesn't seem fair that they only bother signing tv programmes and films that are aired during the night
and for all these people who say films with sign language in the corner are ruined by the person in the corner, rubbish i recorded a film that was on in the middle of the night and had sign language, didn't ruin it for me
Get over yourselves.
well said, my thoughts exactly
this.
I can't see why it's an irritation. It's not like its on all the time. I don't think there is enough really as there are hardly any programmes with it. At least the BBC news channel puts signing on its main bulletins at 1pm, 6pm I think. As if I was deaf I would not want to rely on the auto generated subtitles, which are absolutely dreadful and inaccurate.
As previous posters have already said, get over yourselves!
I agree. Deaf people are just as entitled to enjoy television as everybody else.
I expect some DS forum members would go to the extra effort of pressing the red button and then posting here to complain about why they're "wasting" bandwith for a signed programme at 3am.