From: Fishrassoc@aol.com [mailto:Fishrassoc@aol.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 14 December 1999 12:41
To: disabdis@humanrights.gov.au
Subject: movie theater captioning


I am responding to a notice on your web site concerning the need to provide 
captioning in movie theaters, stage theaters, opera houses, civic meetings, 
religious services, school presentations, anywhere people who are deaf or 
hearing impaired may attend.

As our population ages more and more individuals will need and appreciate 
captioning.  As our communities become more diverse more individuals will 
appreciate captioning in languages other than English.

Open captioning has proven to help some but to annoy others.
Open captioning can be only in one language.

Rear Window limits seating to one area.
Rear Window can be only in one language.

Personal Captioning Systems can provide discreet captioning in more than one 
language to any seat in a given venue.  Using wireless transmission we 
transmit the captioning text to a display unit that looks like a small TV 
that is mounted on a goose neck clamped to the arm of the seat.  Or to a line 
of sight captioner that is mounted onto a pair of glasses.

***   Options to provide text to be displayed
Movie Theaters: Captioning must be provided on the film
Stage Plays: Script is entered into a computer "slide presentation" 
and paced as the play progresses
Lectures: Captions provided by computer "voice to text" software
Real Time: Captions provided using "court stenographers keyboard"

Please visit our web site:  www.PersonalCaptioning.com

Thank you for your desire to provide this accommodation,
Murray Fisher Co-founder
Personal Captioning Systems