in thinking that more dvds should be captioned for deaf people?

[LottieJenkins]

Wilf went and bought the dvd of The Velveteen Rabbit yesterday. There were no captions on it. He bought it anyway as he wanted to watch it. I have noticed that a lot of companies don't put captions on their dvds
I actually took a major company to task a couple of years ago and threatened to go to the papers about them. (They had done a campaign advertising disability but didnt caption some of their dvds!!!) My threat worked and they paid for Wilf and I to have a trip round their film studio and met the creator of the company (think plasticine!!)
I think it should maybe put into the Disability Discrimination Act that DVDS should be captioned.

Thankyou for all the comments. I am glad i am not the only one who gets riled by it...............

this really pisses me off. dh is deaf, & because i'm so used to subtitles being there, if there's none i can't watch. it just doesn't feel right & i can't concentrate.

luckily, most uk tv progs have subs, but not so much on american channels.
weirdly, though, i've found most big hollywood dvds to have them, but not so much on british independent ones.

i now check the case very thoroughly before buying any dvd. saves the disappointment.

A lot of companies seem to release the DVD as fast as they can, followed by a second release with English/English for HoH/Dutch/scandinavian languages/bunch of other languages subtitles.

Incredibly annoying when trying to order online and you don't know which you're getting.
But not as annoying as the ones that say on the box they do have English HoH subtitles (captions, in American) but the menus don't work - the number of times I've gone to the 'languages' menu, selected the option, and then the on/off toggle doesn't work or you can't then get back to the film, is ridiculous. Especially if the film starts with lots of action which they often don't bother subbing, so you have to wait ages until there's dialogue to tell it hasn't worked...

Mainstream DVDs sold in the UK now should have subtitles as a reasonable adjustment (tiny companies could argue they can't afford it), but the ones given out free almost never do, despite complaints to the newspapers giving them out. Apparently it's unreasonable to complain about a freebie.

notcitrus I will say it again - most DVDs sold in the UK are imported so there is nobody against whom a must-subtitle policy could be enforced.

Update. For those of you who said EVERY dvd is captioned.............WRONG!!! I have just bought the DVD of Tara Road and it isnt captioned/subtitled. I even pressed the subtitle button and it didnt work!!