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Re: Is the "Fisherman's Friends" DVD audio described or not?

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circumstances.)

In message <ql0qed$k38$1@dont-email.me>, Brian Gaff 
<briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
>No but this seems to be a pretty normal problem on some dvds. It seems like
>there is a first release then another one full of crap and out takes that

I don't _think_ that was the case here.

>does no longer have the AD, Its really stupid today as it often seems that
>rights to the ad and the actual film are not always owned by the same
>people, its even the case on tv, which is why we get uk ad on us shows that

I think, there, there is also the matter of editing for advertisement 
breaks causing problems.

>had ameerican ad originally. They need to get their comunal fingers out and

They won't unless someone makes them.

>sort it. Also the AD in cinemas here is hit and miss as well, most of the
>staff do not know what its about, for example there was a Swedish film shown
>in Odeon. It had English subtitles but the AD track played in the cinema was
>in Swedish. Either nobody had checked it had been done in English or it
>needed to be selected and nobody knew how to do it.
> We have had similar issues with Asian films and Eastern European ones in
>the last year.
> Brian
>
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote in message
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 > (For those unfamiliar with it, this is a film about a group of Cornish
 > Fishermen, who sing, mostly sea-shanties. They do exist, and are quite
 > popular among those who like that sort of thing, and the wider folk
 > music area in general. The film is a dramatised version of how they 
were
 > "discovered" by a record-company executive.)
 > ..
 > The cinema (US: theatre) release of the film _is_ audio described,
 > obviously only in cinemas that are suitably equipped.
 > ..
 > The DVD of the film, according to _one_ webpage on amazon.co.uk, is
 > described as something like
 > .
 >        Language: English; English (audio described).
 > ..
 > Most other amazon.co.uk pages for it do not mention this.
 > ..
 > My friend - a serious fan of the 'group - bought the DVD. (She'd seen
 > the film in the cinema, taken by friends; the friends got their money
 > back as the AD system wasn't working the night they went, though she
 > enjoyed it anyway!) As far as I can see, there's no mention of AD on 
the
 > back of the case of the DVD itself (I could see something that I think
 > referred to subtitles). She has tried some software called something
 > like digital audio extractor, which she has a description by another
 > user which I've listened to: at the point where the other user gets to
 > (with a different DVD), it seems to list several alternative 
soundtracks
 > (basic, AD, director's commentary), whereas when my friend got to the
 > same point with the software and her FF DVD, there only seemed to be 
the
 > one. I also tried with VLC, and could only find one, though I'm not 
too
 > familiar with that aspect of VLC so I _could_ have missed something.
 > ..
 > Does anyone else here have this DVD and been able to see whether it 
has
 > AD - either via some software (if so which one), or via a DVD player
 > that has that aspect? (My friend does not have a DVD player, being
 > totally blind.)
 > ..
 > The DVD may not be available outside this region (I think we are 
region
 > 2; we're in UK), or if it is, that one may be different.
 > ..
 > Anyone recommend any _other_ softwares that can select alternative
 > soundtracks from a DVD, that are vis-friendly?
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Is the "Fisherman's Friends" DVD audio described or not? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-09-05 11:35 +0100
  Re: Is the "Fisherman's Friends" DVD audio described or not? "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2019-09-07 18:46 +0100
    Re: Is the "Fisherman's Friends" DVD audio described or not? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-09-07 19:36 +0100
      Re: Is the "Fisherman's Friends" DVD audio described or not? "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2019-09-08 08:19 +0100
        Re: Is the "Fisherman's Friends" DVD audio described or not? "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2019-09-09 15:31 +0100
          Re: Is the "Fisherman's Friends" DVD audio described or not? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-09-09 15:45 +0100
            Re: Is the "Fisherman's Friends" DVD audio described or not? "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2019-09-10 12:07 +0100
              Re: Is the "Fisherman's Friends" DVD audio described or not? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-09-10 19:57 +0100
                Re: Is the "Fisherman's Friends" DVD audio described or not? "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2019-09-10 20:19 +0100
    Re: Is the "Fisherman's Friends" DVD audio described or not? "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2019-09-08 08:15 +0100
      Re: Is the "Fisherman's Friends" DVD audio described or not? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-09-08 09:16 +0100
        Re: Is the "Fisherman's Friends" DVD audio described or not? "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2019-09-08 19:21 +0100
          Re: Is the "Fisherman's Friends" DVD audio described or not? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-09-09 14:21 +0100
            Re: Is the "Fisherman's Friends" DVD audio described or not? "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2019-09-10 11:43 +0100
              Re: Is the "Fisherman's Friends" DVD audio described or not? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-09-10 20:02 +0100
                Re: Is the "Fisherman's Friends" DVD audio described or not? "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2019-09-10 20:06 +0100

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