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Federal Judge Slams Netflix's Motion to Dismiss Closed Captioning Case

Courtney O'Donnell | Posted 09.07.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Judge Michael A. Ponsor, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Streaming, National Association of the Deaf, Closed Captioning, Netflix, 3:11-Cv-30168, Subtitles, Nad, Entertainment News
Courtney O'Donnell

The vast majority of programming viewed over the internet is not closed captioned at this time and the Netflix case ruling is a major step towards reversing these conditions as this is the first court to hold that the ADA also applies to website-only businesses.

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WATCH: When Bad Subtitles Get It Right

Posted 07.09.2012 | Comedy
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MSNBC recently made the mistake of putting up the wrong graphic while a clip of French President Nicolas Sarkozy was on the screen. The result? The ne...

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25 Foreign Films Even Subtitle Haters Should See

John Farr | Posted 11.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Yasujiro Ozu, Francois Truffaut, Abbas Kiarostami, Academy Awards, Arthouse, The Lives of Others, Gael Garcia Bernal, Leo Tolstoy, Best Movies by Farr, War and Peace, Akira Kurosawa, Alfonso Cuaron, Marcello Mastroianni, Florian Henckel Con Donnersmarck, Jean Renoir, Wong Kar Wai, Claudia Cardinale, Federico Fellini, Foreign Films, Louis Malle, Pedro Almodovar, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Tati, Fritz Lang, Subtitles, Zhang Yimou, Satyajit Ray, Ulrich Muhe, Werner Herzog, Anna Magnani, Walter Salles, Best Movies on DVD, Jean Gabin, Best Movies, Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, Peter Lorre, Klaus Kinski, Entertainment News
John Farr

Reading subtitles is a lot like riding a bicycle. Practice not only makes perfect, soon enough it's second nature so you don't even notice you're doing it. This particularly holds true when you're watching something great.

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Are the Best Movies for Grown-Ups Being Made Outside the U.S.?

John Farr | Posted 06.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Abbas Kiarostami, Mid-August Lunch, Juliette Binoche, Academy Awards, Gianni Digregorio, The New York Times, Jiri Menzel, Best Movies, Best Movies by Farr, The Oscars, Soul Kitchen, Thirteen/WNET, "Mademoiselle Chambon, Fatih Akin, Foreign Films, Slidepollajax, Shirin, The Secret in Their Eyes, A.O. Scott, The Band's Visit, Hollywood, Best-Movies-on-Dvd, Subtitles, Entertainment News
John Farr

2011-04-25-farr.jpgWhen it comes to what I call "human-scale" films, the rest of the world is eating our lunch.

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Lost In Translation: When Subtitles Go Wrong (PICTURES)

Huffington Post | Dan Abramson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
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Subtitles can guide you through a foreign film. They can also go horribly awry. The latter often happens when an English film is dubbed in another lan...

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TED Announces the Open Translation Project -- Bringing Subtitles in 40+ Languages to TED.com

TEDTalks | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Tamil, Urdu, Language, French, Crowdsourcing, TED.Com, Translations, Tedtalks, Subtitles, Spanish, Hindi, Media News
TEDTalks

The TED Open Translation Project brings TEDTalks beyond the English-speaking world, by offering subtitles, time-coded transcripts, and the ability for volunteers to translate any talk into any language.

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The Man With His Own Subtitles (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Man With Subtitles, Video, Funny or Die, Subtitled Man, Funny Videos, Subtitles, Comedy News

This inventive video explores the life of a man with his own subtitles that he can't get rid of, only alter the size by whispering or shouting. He can...

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