Your life is over. 

Try for the 7 million mark!  That'll cover pain and suffering!

My friend is hearing-impaired.. I wouldn't reccomend her buying any of Shout! Factory's DVD releases.

I would definitely for like Disney, Warner Bros. or Fox since they always have the subtitles (optional only on your DVD remote).

Distributors like Universal, Anchor Bay, Sony or Lions Gate usually have the regular CC captioning (with your regular TV remote). I wonder if S'More does the same thing that you do. I guesss I'll find out October 16 when I get The Littles - The Complete Series.

I know i am responding to an 3 year old post, but I am also an hard of hearing customer UPSET with shout factory, they have no idea how much business they are losing by leaving the hearing impaired  / deaf / hearing customers out without captions.

closed captioning is very benefical to those who want to understand the dialogue 100%,  & also great for hearing kids who watch captions with tv, their reading level is increased alot.

as for suing them, I was once thinking I wanted to, when i brought super mario bros and found out it had no captions,  but i figured by now they would of done it, no... this year they released my favorite tv show "Ghostwriters". AND THEY DIDNT PUT CAPTIONS ON IT EITHER!!!!!!

I googled shout factory closed captions and theres so many complaints unsolved.

Now im pissed to the point where I am thinking, "so people have threat to sue, but havent done anything". Yet shout factory has ignored customer's wishes, now I am wondering... hmmm... I wonder if the deaf people actully have an case? (hello shout factory, I suggest asking your lawyer "are they right?")

If nobody has sued you by now, its because they were nice enough to give you time to prepare & start captioning like the rest of people are doing, but after all these years of obviously ignoring the customers, maybe we the people just need to start taking action in order to get shout factorys' attention? I really would like to work together instead of against. The (hearing impaired) people are clearly upset here. (especially me) SO WOULD YOU PLEASE GET WITH THE TIMES ALREADY!!!!

(after this post i am going to research ADA & closed caption laws, hope I can find something to say "hey! your not followin the law"

Wikipedia estimates that, worldwide, 1 in 1000 people are deaf. Why would Shout Factory want to leave out 5 million to 40 million potential deaf customers?

Shout Factory is clearly on their way to sucess, bringing back the past on dvd's is a wonderful thing... but leaving the deaf/hoh customers on purpose is an direct insult to us (, I encourage you to stop putting it off before deaf people start protesting, If you truly care about us (the deaf customers) you will add captions on all of your dvd's (yes i know it might be costly, but theres always an way)

(for the staff at shout factory who dont show respect to us, how would you feel if an old favorite memory of yours came back on dvd, except everything was stuck on mute, and you could not hear why they were laughing, could not understand why people were doing the things they do, or if you need another clear example "what if the dvd was stuck on spanish audio, how would you understand the tv show (unless u spoke spanish...)

The point is, its awesome that you all are bringing memories back to the public, but for those who are given ADA rights, we deserve to enjoy the memories as well.

Brain, thanks for replying.

2,000 to caption super mario bros, knowing me.. I would put an section in your website, (donate to caption our movies) if wikipedia could get so much $ just to keep their site up, im hoping it would work for shout factory as well... anyway its to my understanding that "max headroom" will be captioned? I applaud that greatly. There are some friends (especially wolfguy) who will definately want to buy the movie.

Yes.. I do realize captioners out there charge SO MUCH %^!@#$ MONEY, i think that part is their fault, not yours..

I encourage you to participate with the deaf/hoh community in expressing how over priced the captioners are, asking the goverment to reduce their overpriced fees,

remember, every little thing counts, if an store like suncoast or walmart (now fye) gets quite an few returns over something like captions, and especially complaints... Do you think walmart or fye would continue to order from the website, or others?

My other idea... (or challenge) "why doesnt someon invent the ability to add captions to an movie on flash, then after the flash project is done, captioning the whole movie online (in return of their long project of adding captions, they all get an dvd? i wonder if that would save alot of money if u had volunteers add captions on flash before remaking it as an dvd.

There are already databases for subtitles online. One of the largest is www.opensubtitles.org 

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by The Snappy Sneezer at 10/13/2010 7:35:05 PM

I was thinking of possibly getting together with a bunch of computer geeks and coming up with a video player that will read your DVDs, recognize what that DVD is and download a caption file to play alongside that film time matched to each title and chapter. I imagine it would be complicated but what it would relate to is a whole bunch of fans submitting captions to a database for the shows they like for the fans of the shows they like who can not hear them very well or who do not speak the language.