Canadian Heritage committee  There's been some experimentation in movie theatres, with described movies, so it does exist. The technology does exist. It could be more prevalent than it is, because it's quite rare that you will actually see a movie that is being advertised and played with video description av

Canadian Heritage committee  No, it's four hours a week that broadcasters.... So it's more like 3% or 1%, or whatever it comes out to be. No, you don't have to subscribe specifically to it, but you do have to know how to activate the video description service, which in itself can be an obstacle. Look at you

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, there is a mix and match, basically, but most often, the video track will be produced after the fact. More often than not we would be getting programs that are reruns, not actual first airings of programs. Beverley, I don't know if you want to add something.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for the question. Descriptive video is the process of adding an audio track to the program so whenever there are pauses in the dialogue the narrator will describe scenes, action, costume changes, whatever is happening on the screen that a non-visually-impaired person

Canadian Heritage committee  Of the dialogue. Obviously if there's music the narrator can speak over the music, and it won't interfere with the dialogue itself.

Canadian Heritage committee  When there's lots of dialogue obviously one can follow along, and usually not too much action is going on. You'll have two or three people talking to one another. But it's when you hear the music. Sometimes by the tone of the music you can guess that something pretty bad is about

Canadian Heritage committee  Good afternoon everyone. All television stations must now provide captioning for all of their programs and described video for four continuous hours per week. Unfortunately, captioning is often inadequate or absent, and there is no described video for 97% of the programs. And ev

Canadian Heritage committee  Since described video technology has been available since 1985, sight-impaired Canadians are wondering why they will have to wait nearly 55 years before they are able to get full access to television, just like the rest of the Canadian population.