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

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A lack of understanding and general malaise seems to be the guiding factor 
for most of this sort of nonsense, until its treated as an integral part of 
whatever it is, it will always go wrong I fear.
 Incidentally, every Saturday, Mushroom Escape, the internet station has an 
audio described film in audio only.
 I've never seen one more modern than mid 2000s myself, many are classics 
and hence much older. This last week I think it was from the mid 1990s.
 Brian

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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote in message 
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> (Original post is at end - Brian top-posts, which I accept in his 
> 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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