The Invisible Man

Many of those episodes ARE sponsored and so noted AS a caption under the intro or splash screen (often by W-GBH/PBS Boston). However, there has been ONE captioning service that was horribly, wildly out of synch and inaccurate (I think on "Regenesis"?). We should always be careful what we wish for.   See 6 other replies

I am not, hard of hearing at all, nor is anyone I'm close to, or live with, but I've been watching all television with cc on, whenever possible, for since I was 17, so over 15 years. I do have attention problems ADHD and such, and sometimes process info just a little slower, not to mention all of the slurred, or hurried speech that often happens in television, it can be easy to mis words. I don't always have the capability to pause and re wind several times til I can decipher what the character is saying, and with cc I don't have to. I watch a lot of Sci Fi, and with lots of fictional terms or names, that often have roots in other languages being able to see how the word is spelled can be very useful to understanding more to the meaning and context of a name or term. I have also noticed that often times, that if you don't have the right audio set up, (such as Stereo, surround sound, etc.) you can miss lines altogether, especially for characters off screen. Another advantage that i've noticed to cc is that sometimes there will be characters in the background that are talking so softly that you can't really hear them in the first place, and assume you aren't really aren't meant to. CC will often even display these lines. Another situation in which I was pleased to be using cc was when watching shows such as 'Charmed' and there were spells being cast that were just words backwards, which is not always revealed in the dialogue and would be close to impossible to recognize without seeing the spelling of the words, but knowing that origin added more depth to my viewing experience. It is absolutely not right to deny anyone, access to enjoying television shows, and as someone pointed out earlier, almost ALL television is aired with cc, but NOT on the internet, and as internet viewing is becoming more prolific this will definitely need to be remedied.   See 6 other replies

I agree. There's an unfortunate lack of subtitling on Hulu, even though I really like how you can adjust your settings to make "display subtitles" a default. I'm hard of hearing myself. Only slightly, so if I turn up the volume I can enjoy this, but it takes more mental effort than if there are subtitles and I miss a lot of lines. I hear that they've been spoken, but I have trouble understanding recordings for some reason, so I don't know what was said. And sometimes that's important. Plus, watching a lot of stuff without subtitles can be exhausting because I have to listen much more carefully. So if anyone knows how we can petition as a group to Hulu to get more subtitles, I'd be game to join. Perhaps they can get them corporately sponsored, the way everything else is. In the subtitles: "Closed captioning brought to you by..." It works on broadcast television.   See 6 other replies

My brother is deaf and I guess I'm just accustomed to subtitles myself, so I would greatly appreciate it if Hulu subtitled this series. I think he would enjoy this quite a bit actually!   See 6 other replies