Ch 5 are aload of idiots.

[Brian Gaff]

Well no I'm not going to moan about their competitions that a trained iguana
could get right, its their audio description.
Monday and tuesday night had a two part CSI. the gimmick is the first was
Las Vagas, the second New York, but they were parts of the same story.
They audio describe the first part and not the second part. Taking the piss
or what. OK, its only a tv show, but with this level of care for disabled,
I'm just glad they are not running anything more important than a tv
channel.
I have sent them an email, but my thoughts are that they seemed to stop AD
on new york and my guess is that the funding is only for the las vagas
series so instead of considering the daft implication of only doing the one,
they went ahead and did the one cos its las vagas, and did not do the new
york.

Completely hat stand.
Brian



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[Mike]

The BBC aren't much better.

[Ian]

In message <knhpra$4v3$1...@dont-email.me>, Brian Gaff
<Bri...@blueyonder.co.uk> writes

Also those were not included in the Series Link for CSI Las Vegas, so my
assumption that I had recorded them turned out to be misguided.
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[Brian Gaff]

Well, I'm not sure why, but I see the last series of baby cars, erm top
Gear, was not AD, but then I'd not want to actually learn about cars myself,
and you stand little chance of learning much from that bunch of kinda Garten
presenters anyway.

Brian

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"Mike" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
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[Brian Gaff]

I'm not surprised aat all. Is there anyone actually living over there any
more or is it being run by a bunch of robots?

You will I expect find it on 5USA in the fulness of time.

Also as it must have been some kind of gimmick as if they had spent time
tweaking the script all of it could have been put into one slightly extended
show.
I wonder what the legalities are of getting your own company to do AD on
stuff and then flogging it at cost to blind viewers. Certainly the books
and other written media has an exemption in law from copyright if the
media does not exist in an accessible form already.

Brian

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"Ian" <ne...@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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[Ian Field]

"Brian Gaff" <Bri...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Well no I'm not going to moan about their competitions that a trained
> iguana
> could get right, its their audio description.

I remember a CH5 weather forecast going on about what a lovely warm sunny
day it was while it was pissing with rain - doesn't their studio have any
windows?!

[Bill Wright]

Ian Field wrote:

> I remember a CH5 weather forecast going on about what a lovely warm
> sunny day it was while it was pissing with rain - doesn't their studio
> have any windows?!

Maybe it was nice where they were.

Bill

[Brian Gaff]

So all those with series link issues can now write and have a moan as well.
as I suspected, they did not engage their brains before acting.

Brian


Date: 24th May 2013


Dear Brian

Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding CSI: New York which we are
responding to on behalf of Julie Miller.

The episode transmitted on 21st May is part of Series 9 which is due to be
transmitted on Channel 5 later this year and is not technically part of the
current series of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Unfortunately, when
arranging for audio description tracks for the current series of CSI: Crime
Scene Investigation, we did not arrange for a track for the single episode
of CSI: New York included as part of this run. This was an oversight on our
part and we apologise for any inconvenience this has caused you.

When Series 9 of CSI: New York is transmitted in full on Channel 5, we are
planning to broadcast an audio description track with each episode including
the one transmitted on Tuesday. We very much hope that you enjoy the
conclusion of the crossover episode in the future.

In the meantime, we have logged your complaint in the Viewer Enquiries
Report which is circulated throughout the company.

Thank you for your interest in Channel 5.

Yours sincerely

Terry
VIEWER ADVISOR


Please note that the contact details for Channel 5 Customer Services are as
follows:

Telephone: 0845 7 05 05 05 / 020 8612
7700
Text telephone for use by deaf people: 0845 7 41 37 87
E-mail:
customer...@five.tv<mailto:customer...@five.tv>
Fax: 020 8612 7686

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[Brian Gaff]

On the other hand it might have been written by the bloke who sets their
competitions.
What is the currency of the USA?

Really?

Brian

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"Bill Wright" <bi...@invalid.com> wrote in message
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[Brian Gaff]

Nah, I have a feeling the dvds do not have AD.
In any case there are issues over how to find the right menu option if it
did.
Brian

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"Martin" <m...@address.invalid> wrote in message
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> No gift of a boxed set to shut you up?

> Martin in Zuid Holland
>

[Max Demian]

"Brian Gaff" <Bri...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message

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> Nah, I have a feeling the dvds do not have AD.
> In any case there are issues over how to find the right menu option if it
> did.
> Brian

Do any DVDs have AD? If they do it must be with a separate track that
includes the original sound, as AFAIK DVD players don't have the ability to
superimpose one sound track on another.

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[Ian Field]

"Brian Gaff" <Bri...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message

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> On the other hand it might have been written by the bloke who sets their
> competitions.
> What is the currency of the USA?

This type of quiz in general was criticized for being pretty much a lottery
as the questions are so simple, winning depends more than anything on your
entry being drawn out of the hat.

The charge (in addition to network rate) for texting the answer was heavily
criticized - but some allow postal entries, so how does that work?!

[Ian Field]

"Martin" <m...@address.invalid> wrote in message

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> or where the forecast was made.

Probably subcontracted to some obscure weather bureau somewhere in the
Southern hemisphere!

[Sara]

In article <b0bfic...@mid.individual.net>,

DVDs quite often come with things like the director's commentary, but
maybe that's a completely different audio track, containing both the
sound from the film and the commentary.

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[Max Demian]

"Sara" <sarame...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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I think that's the case. The original film soundtrack is either missing or
much attenuated so you can't really hear it - which doesn't matter as I
would only use it after watching the film with the regular soundtrack first.

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[Ian]

In message <fb2ot.22239$dW3....@fx21.am4>, Ian Field
<gangprob...@ntlworld.com> writes

Not long ago, I noticed that Ch5 were following some programmes with
competitions that had no quiz element at all, just requiring details to
put in a hat.
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[Roderick Stewart]

On Sun, 26 May 2013 09:27:44 +0100, "Max Demian"
<max_d...@bigfoot.com> wrote:

>>>
>>> Do any DVDs have AD? If they do it must be with a separate track that
>>> includes the original sound, as AFAIK DVD players don't have the ability
>>> to
>>> superimpose one sound track on another.
>>
>> DVDs quite often come with things like the director's commentary, but
>> maybe that's a completely different audio track, containing both the
>> sound from the film and the commentary.
>
>I think that's the case. The original film soundtrack is either missing or
>much attenuated so you can't really hear it - which doesn't matter as I
>would only use it after watching the film with the regular soundtrack first.

Nevertheless, there are usually several soundtracks, sometimes quite a
lot. There seems no technical reason why one of them couldn't be a
mixed AD track with the dialogue dipped at suitable points, perhaps
with a lower level of FX and music for good measure.

Rod.

[Max Demian]

"Roderick Stewart" <rj...@escapetime.myzen.co.uk> wrote in message
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I suppose the question is whether a blind person would want to pay for (or
rent) a DVD with video he can't appreciate.

It's too bad that there aren't anything like as many radio plays made as
films.

(In the 30s they broadcast plays live on US radio based on popular films -
often with the same actors as in the original films.)

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