Equal Access: HDMI is Inaccessible

[Banjo]

Hello everybody, I'm glad to be back here after a lengthy vacation. I finally decided on a subject to cover. I feel that it is quite a serious situation. Please watch the vlog to learn why it concerns the deaf community in a big way. The vlog is captioned.

- To view the vlog, click here.

After watching the vlog, I hope you are now more aware of how serious this situation is becoming. The HDMI is becoming the standard of watching HD contents on HDTV. If we don’t do something soon, it may be too late. The damage is already being done as we speak.

To file a complaint with the FCC (Federal Communications Comission), you can click here to enter the page on their website. I hope you will do your part and support the deaf community in fighting the FCC’s way of approving technology to be used by the public. If a new cable, equipment and more are inaccessible to the deaf and hard of hearing, they should not be approved for mainstream market.

The change needs to be made now. Not tomorrow, not next week, not in a month, not in a year, not in a decade.

Hope y'all can help me out on this one since it concerns the HDMI cable. I love the cable, but they need to start supporting CC (Closed Captioning) now or else.

[arush5268d]

I'm not sure of the technical details behind it, but I was surprised when I found out a while back that HDMI does not support CC

[Leopold BUTTERS]

it doesn't support it?...does mean all BD movies must come with subtitles and all TV shows must have subtitles as well...?

[Banjo]

Originally Posted by Leopold BUTTERS

it doesn't support it?...does mean all BD movies must come with subtitles and all TV shows must have subtitles as well...?

For TV shows, it's impossible. You would need a TV receiver that has a CC decoder built in. But if you want to record something off the TV, the CC will be burnt onto the video.

A lot of people don't want that.

[WriteSimply]

How will the FCC's decision affect Canada, Banjo? You know that I support this cause. But over here, we don't even have CC programming or hardware.


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[arush5268d]

Originally Posted by WriteSimply

How will the FCC's decision affect Canada, Banjo? You know that I support this cause. But over here, we don't even have CC programming or hardware.


fuad

There is no CC at all in TV in Canadia...just movie subtitles from DVDs/ Blus?

[Banjo]

Originally Posted by WriteSimply

How will the FCC's decision affect Canada, Banjo? You know that I support this cause. But over here, we don't even have CC programming or hardware.


fuad

It affects us in a big way. If the FCC approve them, then we are more than likely to get them here too.