My Letter to Blu-ray Disc Assocation

[Caligula]

Blu-ray Disc Association,

I knew Blu-ray was superior from day one when I was first introduced to Blu-ray. My Blu movie experience was enhanced with High Definition and subtitles that I rely on. Yes, I am a Deaf Blu-ray adopter and require using English SDH subtitle to have my Beyond High Definition Experience. I cannot hear anything with DTS-HD Master, Dolby Digital, etc.

My first impression was that all Blu ray discs have subtitles as I was told. That was why I buy Blu-ray because of that features and superior picture quality. Now more studios are joining the Blu ray wagon and “the beyond high definition experience” slogan is tainted now. Lions gate does not provide subtitle for Deaf and hearing impaired (SDH).. Not only Lionsgate lacks doing so, now low budget studios are Blu, and there are no subtitles at all. Echo Bridge Entertainment comes to mind with their low budget movies. There are no subtitles accessible to people who need it, this is disappointing and unacceptable.

I often hear that BDA has to license studios before they are able to release movies on Blu-ray. I was wondering why BDA didn’t enforce all studios to provide English subtitles preferably SDH, to enhance their Blu experience. You should disqualify/revoke studios license if they did not met mandatory spec such as subtitles or any “Beyond High Defintion experience” that BDA loves to use that slogan. Low budget studios will ruin that experience by not providing English subtitles and it happened with DVD. DVD’s are tainted with bad accessibility for disabled people. I would hate to see them do the same with Blu-ray. Blu ray is about superiority and ultimate experience? No?



It is disappointing when Blu-ray has high Definition experience in audio such as

True HD
DTS-HD Master
DTS-HR (High Resolution)
Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital PLI
Dolby Digital PL II

Dolby Digital ES
Dolby Digital +
Uncompressed Linear PCM
Linear PCM

And Deaf and hearing impaired people only have few accessible options (a few certain studios do not provide fully)

Lionsgate: (thumbs down)

English and Spanish (NO SDH)

Fox:

English SDH, English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Korean


Disney: (thumbs up)

English SDH, French, Spanish

DreamWorks: (thumbs up)

English SDH, English, French, Spanish

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: (thumbs up)

English SDH, English, French

New Line Cinema: (thumbs up)

English SDH, Spanish

Paramount: (thumbs up)

English SDH, French, Spanish

Sony: (thumbs up)

English SDH, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai

Universal: (thumbs up)

English, Portuguese, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, Malay

Warner Bros: (thumbs up)

English SDH, English, French, Spanish

Weinstein:

Unknown

Echo Bridge Entertainment: (thumbs down)

NONE (except for Beer League, English subtitle)

Blue Underground:

Unknown

Thank you for your time and please help your Blu fellows,

Jeffrey

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