Welcome to Collinwood - sign language on screen

Settled down to watch Welcome to Collinwood last night, recorded off
SM3 last Monday night only to find a man in the corner doing sign
language like on late night BBC progs. Have I missed something here?
How long has this been going on? Nothing about it in the TV Times.
Anyway, after less than a minute I decided it was unwatchable and
deleted it.

MJ

wrote:
|| Settled down to watch Welcome to Collinwood last night, recorded off
|| SM3 last Monday night only to find a man in the corner doing sign
|| language like on late night BBC progs. Have I missed something here?
|| How long has this been going on? Nothing about it in the TV Times.
|| Anyway, after less than a minute I decided it was unwatchable and
|| deleted it.
||
|| MJ

It's been going on for quite a while now. More and more programing is having
signing on it, which imho is bloody annoying and there is no need for it.

There is an option to turn on subtitles, so that should be enough.

Mike Henry wrote:

You are ignorant if you think there is "no need".

Just to jump in here because it is a pet rant, there is *no need* to
have this forced on everyone.
There is enough bandwidth to have this on a separate channel - it is a
legitimate use of "The Red Button"...
Some deaf people can only communicate in sign language, and not English.
Subtitles are no use to them whatsoever.

Yes agreed, but the point above applies.

Lee
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Mike Henry wrote:

True. I was responding just to the "no need" in "more and more
programing(sic) is having signing on it".


Ah, Fairy Nuff

Lee
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In uk.media.tv.sky on Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Mike Henry wrote :

It's been going on for quite a while now. More and more programing is having
signing on it, which imho is bloody annoying and there is no need for it.

You are ignorant if you think there is "no need".

While I agree there is 'a need', it's still very annoying for the 99.9%
of people who don't 'need' it.
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Paul 'US Sitcom Fan' Hyett

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wrote:
|| Settled down to watch Welcome to Collinwood last night, recorded off
|| SM3 last Monday night only to find a man in the corner doing sign
|| language like on late night BBC progs. Have I missed something here?
|| How long has this been going on? Nothing about it in the TV Times.
|| Anyway, after less than a minute I decided it was unwatchable and
|| deleted it.
||
|| MJ

It's been going on for quite a while now. More and more programing is having
signing on it, which imho is bloody annoying and there is no need for it.

There is an option to turn on subtitles, so that should be enough.


Well, there probably is a demand for signed programmes from the deaf
quarter, otherwise there wouldn't be signed programmes in the first
place! The issue here is that there's no way to tun the feature off if
you don't need it. That's wrong, and needs a fix. I've tried watching
signed programmes and like the original poster, gave up after about 30
seconds.

Clem