The second saddest thing is how many people who spout off about the issue do so from a position of ignorance and emotion, not facts. I find the saddest thing has always been the way the families involved and the children diagnosed with it are treated. I'm not a Deaf militant, but I am hard of hearing since childhood and have participated in the Deaf community and use sign language, so I know a little bit about this stuff because it involves me and those like me. No, what is child abuse is using the misfortune of someone's child being born with a hearing impairment to excuse human experimentation on infants with dubious real world results. I think it's child abuse to deny a baby born deaf a cochlear implant And given the FCC is basically requiring CEA-708 feature set compliance (along with the fact these services are on dozens or hundreds of devices with vastly different software), that's going to be a shit-ton of work. They will all be coming up with ways (some standard most somewhat proprietary) of taking CC from the content providers, sending it as separate requests (likely HTTP) and displaying it on devices. Given companies like Netflix already have literally 100's of thousands of encoded and encrypted streams already on CDNs, they can't just 'dump' anything to a stream. Now they are going to have to go get CC/subtitle info from all of those providers in a big clusterfuck of content management. And that's all beside the point, since Netflix doesn't get their streaming from any of those, they get MPEG files from the content providers. VHS uses line 21 VBI CC (ie just analog NTSC 480i and totally irrelevant), DVD uses bitmap images (a horrible format for streaming, and those are subtitles not closed captions anyway), and BD subtitles are way overcomplicated for streaming use. Д¬able is regulated because it's not all a local coax - much of the system is distributed over satellite, etc, which the FCC regulates. But trying to turn that into a concrete policy becomes very mucky, as sites like youtube are profiting from it either directly from ad revenue, or indirectly through increased traffic/draw to their site.Дamn, I swear you are now my textbook example for. If the video author isnвЂ™t getting money, the requirement goes away. The obvious answer would be monetization.

Where do you (or do you) draw the line between content that is вЂњrealвЂќ enough to require closed captioning (commercial productions, movies, etc.), and content that doesnвЂ™t (videos taken on cell phones, etc.). The implications on other content and especially user supplied content where no/very little revenue is being generated are of course the most scary. and doing non-profitable stuff like this just becomes another cost of business. Most of us could easily by freak accident be in a position where weвЂ™d want these services. On the other hand thatвЂ™s part of living in a civilized society. Same can be said with making websites accessible to the blind (and really probably most brick nвЂ™ mortar establishments. The amount of revenue you bring in by making your content accessible is not going to pay the cost of doing so.

Closed captioning on netflix