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Thank you, Oprah, for your captioned videos. »

As I increasingly turn online for news and entertainment, I am so grateful for those publishers whom make their video content available with captioning.  One such company is Harpo Productions, Oprah’s empire.  Earlier this year, several million viewers participated in Oprah’s webcast with Eckhart Tolle “A New Earth.”  Although the live event did not include captioning, […]

Video Words - Closed Captioning on the Web »

Editor Notes: Sorry, had to remove the playback…
AOL and CNN have a few news videos that offer closed captioning.  Strangely enough, CNN.com doesn’t have caption options on any of its videos and I was unable to find any other news feeds with the CC box on AOL.  
You know what to do:  Go to AOL’s support central, click on Rate This […]

Take Back the Movies! »

I love going to the movies.  Adventure flicks, foreign films, love stories, you name it.  I’ve never met a movie I couldn’t enjoy in some fashion, either by admiring the sets, the costumes, the beauty of the actors or the ridiculousness of it all.  I love the movies.  Even on the first day of spring, […]

Amazon Unbox more like a Huh?box »

When Amazon announced Unbox, I was tickled silly.  I am a devoted TiVo subscriber and this new Amazon product makes it possible to download a rental movie (you can buy movies too) from the Unbox site and watch it on your TV.   You can also download a movie via their Unbox Video Player and watch on your computer, […]