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FCC Deadline for Internet Video Captions…AGAIN?
But no need to worry about your kid’s cat surfing videos – even if they go viral! Only programs shown on TV when re-shown on the Internet will need to be captioned, as mandated by the Twenty-First...
View ArticleBack to the Future of TV… NATPE at 50!
Now a major international force in the digital content revolution, the National Associates of Television Program Executives (NATPE), annual convention is January 27-29 in Miami. Who woulda thunk 50...
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Want to shout at the FCC? Here’s Your Chance…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is now inviting public comments on Closed Captioning of video clips delivered by Internet – before January 27, 2014 – since a coalition of consumer...
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Trans-culturalism… Say What?
The Multicultural Media Forum is a unique, research and strategy-driven event attended by executives and decision-makers from the media, advertising, technology, and financial industries – companies...
View ArticleVideo, Film, TV & Streaming Media Schmoozing Around The Globe…
Dotsub will be in attendance at the following events. Drop us a note if you would like to meetup! Multicultural Americas Media Forum: March 20 (NYC) NAB: April 7-10 (Las Vegas) MIPtv: April 7-10;...
View ArticleFCC’s New Caption Quality Standards Are Tough!
FCC defines four non-technical quality standards as the components necessary to ensure that closed captions provided by Video Programming Distributors (VPDs) — “defined as all entities who provide...
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FCC Expands Closed Captioning Rules to Web Clips
On July 11, 2014 The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has yet again expanded the types of video that broadcasters, cable and satellite channels must caption for the deaf and hearing...
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Scenarist Closed Caption (SCC) file export
Dotsub now supports export into Scenarist Closed Caption (SCC) subtitle files. This is an older NTSC based subtitle format used with broadcast TV. Our SCC support is limited to the EIA-608 character...
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Ofcom on the State of Captioning in the UK
The next report on the state of captioning from UK broadcasting watchdog Ofcom is due in April 2015. Reporting since 2013, Ofcom says that the industry has made great progress since then for the...
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ADA Celebrates 25 Years!
The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed into law 25 years ago in July of 1990. The result of decades of unceasing work by disability advocates, the ADA is one of America’s most comprehensive...
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