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Searching for Closed Captioned Movies on iTunes Is Even Easier

15 April, 2008 @ 4:04 pm by Lioncourt

Apple has enhanced the iTunes store so that you can now search for movies that are closed captioned. To access the feature, select "Search…" from the Store menu in iTunes to access the Power Search, then choose "Movies" from the Power Search pop-up menu. There’s a new checkbox "Search movies that are available with Closed Captioning" under the row of edit text fields. Click the checkbox then click the Search button to view a list of all available movies from the iTunes Store with Closed Captioning. Fill in the text fields to fine-tune your search. As of this writing, there are fifty-two titles with more being added continually.


Screen Shot of Closed Captioning Search in iTunes


Posted in Apple Inc., Apple News, AppleTV, iPods and iTunes | 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “Searching for Closed Captioned Movies on iTunes Is Even Easier”

  1. BlindGeek observed:

    Now if only we could get iTunes to allow us to search for product with descriptive audio tracks. Better yet, if we could get Apple to make a push for products with descriptive audio tracks being sold on iTunes at all. Sorry, I realize this is coming across as rather bitter, which is a departure from my normal personality; it just seems like descriptive audio so often gets the short end of the stick, while closed-captioning reigns supreme among the media gods.

    April 17th, 2008 at 11:38 am
  2. bgramer said:

    I agree that it blows that there isn’t much available for closed captions through iTunes but it’s the content producers’ responsibility (fault?) to embed captions within their content.

    They already do it for broadcast and cable, why not just give that master tape with captions embedded already to Apple to upload? It can be that easy.

    Apple has pretty much done everything short of becoming a content producer to help allow captions to be displayed. I don’t think its their fault.

    You have to admit that Closed captions is getting better though. Look at Hulu which is supposed to come out with an iPhone/iPod Touch app if the rumors are true. YouTube also has captioning available if used but not many people understand how to embed captioned text inside their homemade videos.

    For these deaf and hard of hearing people (me too!) who still go to the movies, we have more options every day with more movie theaters now showing more open captions and rear window captions than ever before. Because that growth is happening, it helps to have a website like Captionfish that makes it easier to search for captioned movies in your area. No more trying to track down all these different websites with different movies chains.

    http://www.captionfish.com

    It would be a challenge to organize some kind of advocacy message that makes it loud and clear to the content producers that we need and MUST have captions. I don’t think petitions really hold much sway. What else do you think would be more effective? Has anyone tried to do anything?

    May 26th, 2009 at 11:26 am

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