Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has joined Sony Pictures by committing to release the Descriptive Video Service® (DVS®) track created for theatrical release of films on the DVD and Blu-Ray versions of those films.
The Media Access Group at WGBH, which creates both closed captioning and DVS, is most grateful to Universal for this major step forward. The excitement among description fans generated by the Sony announcement just a few weeks ago will no doubt be echoed by the latest good news. Any comments and feedback WGBH receives are shared with these studios (so send them a note!), and will also be used to convince additional studios’ home entertainment divisions to get on board the DVS on DVD train (and beyond this, to online streaming/downloading).
More about DVS can be found here: dvs.wgbh.org
Here now is a list of DVD and Blu-Ray titles that will include DVS as an option:
- Land of the Lost (Universal) Available Now
- The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three (Sony) Nov 3
- The Ugly Truth (Sony) Nov 10
- Bruno (Universal) Nov 17
- Funny People (Universal) Nov 24
- Julie and Julia (Sony) Dec 8
- Public Enemies (Universal) Dec 8
- District 9 (Sony) (Dec 29)
After the first of the year:
- Love Happens (Universal)
- Couples Retreat (Universal)
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Sony)
- Zombieland (Sony)
- The Stepfather (Sony)
- ...and more to come!
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