MoPix Update from WGBH- January 21

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MoPix Update from WGBH- January 21

1. Captioned Movie Opening Today

2. New Access-Equipped Theaters

3. FCC Chairman Names WGBH Media Access Veteran to Top Committee Post

4. Update – Captions and Description for Digital Cinema

5. MoPix Films Now Playing

6. MoPix Films Coming Soon

7. Credits

1. Captioned Movie Opening Today

No Strings Attached from Paramount Pictures*

(cc only) (rated R)

A guy and girl try to keep their relationship strictly physical, but it's

not long before they learn that they want something more. Starring

Portman and Ashton Kutcher.

2. New MoPix-Equipped Theater Locations

National Amusements has installed a second MoPix system in each of these

Massachusetts locations, providing movie patrons who rely on access features

greater choice of films to enjoy:

-National Amusements Blackstone Valley 14 Cinema de Lux, Millbury

-National Amusements Showcase Cinema North Attleboro, North Attleboro

-National Amusements Showcase Cinema Seekonk, Seekonk

-National Amusements Showcase Cinema Woburn, Woburn

-National Amusements Showcase Cinema Worcester North, Worcester

-National Amusements Showcase Cinema de Lux Legacy Place, Dedham

-National Amusements Showcase Cinema de Lux Patriot Place, Foxboro

-National Amusements Showcase Cinema de Lux Revere, Revere

-National Amusements Showcase Cinemas Lowell, Lowell

-National Amusements Showcase Cinemas Randolph, Randolph

Thank you National Amusements!

-Additional Massachusetts Locations with Installations Coming Soon:

AMC Burlington 10 – Coming Soon!

Auditorium 10

20 South Ave.

Burlington 781-229-1931

AMC Chestnut Hill 5 – Coming Soon!

27 Boylston Street

Chestnut Hill 617 277-2502

AMC Dartmouth Mall 12 – Coming Soon!

140 N. Dartmouth Mall

North Dartmouth 508 999-3142

AMC Tyngsboro 12 – Coming Soon!

440 Middlesex Road

Tyngsboro 978 649-4158

- Utah

Megaplex 13 at the Junction (was DVS Theatrical location, now installing a

Rear Window system as well)

2351 Kiesel Avenue

Ogden

- Virginia

Cobb CinéBistro @ Stony Point Fashion Park – Coming Soon!

9200 Stony Point Parkway

Richmond

- Washington

Bainbridge Cinemas (Rear Window System only at this location)

403 N. Madison Avenue

Bainbridge Island

3. FCC Chairman Names WGBH Media Access Veteran to Top Committee Post

When the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act was signed

into law last fall, it required the Federal Communications Commission to

establish two committees to assist with its implementation. One committee

will make recommendations on access provisions of next generation 911

systems, and the other on the accessibility of media delivered via

television, the Internet and on mobile devices as well as the accessibility

of user interfaces for on-screen text menus, video programming guides and

menus on navigational devices. The committee is made up of representatives

from the nation's leading technology firms, tv and cable networks and

national organizations representing people who are deaf, hard of hearing,

blind and visually impaired. Larry Goldberg, director of the National

Center for Accessible Media at WGBH has been named co chair of this

committee, known as the Video Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee

(VPAAC). A representative from Zenith Electronics is his co-chair. More

information on the law, on the committee and its full 45-person membership

can be found at this page of the FCC's site:

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/VPAAC/

We've also posted a link to the announcement at NCAM's home page,

ncam.wgbh.org

4. Update – Captions and Description for Digital Cinema, Captions for 3D

Films

The Media Access Group worked with film industry standards groups for over

the last several years to ensure captioning (open and closed) and

description are available to theaters and their patrons as the theaters

transition to digital projection of films. Several theaters that are

projecting digital film are also displaying Rear Window Captions, and more

are literally coming online each week. Digital cinema servers from Doremi,

Dolby, GDC, Qube and Sony are all compatible with Rear Window. And Rear

Window Captioning also works with 3D films.

Currently Focus Features, Summit Entertainment, Sony Pictures, Universal

Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Films, Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros.

Pictures all provide closed captioned digital cinema packages.

When a studio offers a closed captioned digital cinema package for the films

it releases, we will indicate such on the www.mopix.org site, and add this

line to the listing in our weekly update:

#cc dcp#

Update: Currently Warner Bros. Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Films and

Walt Disney Studios provide both captioned and audio described digital

cinema packages for most of their releases. When a studio provides both

closed captioning and audio description in a digital cinema package, we will

indicate such on the MoPix site and in our weekly update with:

##cc dvs dcp##

Learn more about access features for digital cinema from this resource we

maintain:

Access to Digital Cinema Systems/Frequently Asked Questions:

<http://tinyurl.com/y9h2k9p>

5. MoPix Films Now Playing

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