MoPix Update from WGBH- October 29

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MoPix Update from WGBH- October 29

1. MoPix Movie Opening this Week

2. New Access-Equipped Theaters

3. GMAT Study Guides Now More Accessible

4. Press " 5 " to Hear DVS on Toy Story 3 DVD

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

Films

6. MoPix Films Now Playing

7. MoPix Films Coming Soon

8. Credits

1. MoPix Movie Opening This Week

Conviction from Fox Searchlight Films

(cc dvs) (rated R)

Betty Anne Waters ( Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly

two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law

school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Sam

Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.

2. New Access-Equipped Theater Locations

- Massachusetts

AMC Harvard Square 5 – Coming Soon!

Auditorium 1

10 Church St.

Cambridge 617-864-4581 (voice)

AMC Burlington 10 – Coming Soon!

Auditorium 10

20 South Ave.

Burlington 781-229-1931

AMC Loews Liberty Tree Mall 20 – Coming Soon!

Auditorium 14

100 Independence Way

Danvers 978-750-9785 (voice)

- 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. GMAT Study Guides Now More Accessible

We worked with the staff of the Graduate Management Admission Council (folks

behind the GMAT exam) to make digital talking book versions of their study

guides accessible to users who are blind and have low vision. Graphics and

diagrams are now described, text can be voiced via a synthesizer with

controllable speed and can also be magnified. Read more about this

first-of-its-kind project, and watch a video of the accessible features, at:

http://gmac.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43

<http://gmac.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43 & item=119> & item=119

4. Toy Story 3 on DVD with DVS

Toy Story 3 will debut in retail stores and via online retail outlets on

Tuesday, November 2. DVD and Blu-ray versions will both include an optional

DVS track. Thanks to the dedication of Pixar and Disney, and their ongoing

collaboration with WGBH, the discs will also feature an easy-to-use short

cut for getting to the described track, enabling users to avoid drilling

down multiple layers of on-screen menus that can be a challenge to people

with vision, let alone people without vision. Users simply press " 5 " or " 5 "

+ " Enter " on their DVD player's remote control to go directly to the Pixar

short film Night & Day (described). After that ends, the described version

of Toy Story 3 will begin playing. Ta-da!

A full list of mainstream movies as well as programs that aired on PBS that

are now on DVD can both be accessed through this page of our site:

www.describedmovies.org

5. 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. When a studio offers closed

captioned digital cinema packages 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:

##closed captioned digital cinema package available##

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>

6. MoPix Films Now Playing

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