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Audio described cinema and DVD information.
Audio described video cassettes.
Audio description is also available on video cassettes from the RNIB. The original soundtrack is replaced with an audio described track. Over 150 video titles are now available to buy or rent, including classic films such as Casablanca, Citizen Kane, It's a Wonderful Life, Singing in the Rain, The Third Man, West Side Story, Wizard of Oz and Strangers on a Train.
More recent titles include the Disney titles, Harry Potter titles, Titanic, The Aviator, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Matrix trilogy, Calendar Girls, Chicago, Pirates of the Carribean, and many more.
To receive a Home Video Catalogue of all the available titles or to order a video, please contact RNIB Customer Services, or telephone 0845 702 3153, or email cservices@rnib.org.uk
You can view titles online here: http://onlineshop.rnib.org.uk/browse.asp?n=11&c=50&sc=158&it=1&l=3
Many shows on TV are audio described too.
Many TV channels offer audio description on the digital and cable platforms. Over 8 million people in the UK currently recieve audio description through Sky Digital, by setting the set top box to "narrative" mode from the language menu. Channels with regular audio description include BBC channels, ITV, Channel Four, Five UKTV, Living TV, Sky One, Sky Movies, Discovery and more.
Programmes described include the most popular programmes like Lost, EastEnders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale and many children's programmes.
TV sets are now
beginning to appear with a built in 'audio description enabled' freeview box.
Click here for more information from the RNIB website:
http://www.rnib.org.uk/tv
Click here for audio described TV listings on the Sky platform: http://www1.sky.com/accessibility/tvguide.htm#anchornameAD
Click here for audio described TV listings on the Freeview platform, and more information: http://www.tvhelp.org.uk/audes/
Click here for a very useful link to the RNIB's website section on audio description: http://www.rnib.org.uk/audiodescription
Visit the BBC Ouch guide to audio description here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/fact/ouch_guide_to_audio_description.shtml
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