Closed Captioning Blog

Unlimi-Tech Software is the creator of FileCatalyst, the world’s leading file transfer solution. Aberdeen has selected FileCatalyst in order to meet all of our “tapeless” distribution needs. Simply having an FTP site wasn’t enough to handle all of Aberdeen’s various tapeless transactions. FileCatalyst allows Aberdeen and their clients to easily handle 50GB files with speed and reliability. Users can log into the web-based portal and upload, download, or ...

Are you familiar with IP-delivered programming? This includes all videos that are distributed via the Internet (where you watch the program on your personal computer, cell phone, Xbox, etc.) The most popular sources are video on demand, iTunes, Hulu, and of course, YouTube. If you are a producer and you think your IP-delivered programming is exempt from closed captioning, think again! The FCC released new rules this year ...

The Commission allows producers to submit a closed captioning waiver if they feel they need to be exempt from the closed captioning rules. However, the Commission has rejected hundreds of closed captioning waivers since last year and it seems as though this trend is continuing. Many small producers are filing waivers that claim that closed captioning of their programs is economically burdensome. The problem is that they are ...

Last year, Netflix was sued by the National Association of the Deaf for not providing closed captioning or subtitles on its streaming content. Netflix took this to heart and is working hard to remedy the problem. In December 2011, Netflix reached their goal—80% of the hours of video streamed in the US contained captions or subtitles. This is a huge jump from the 40% that it was in ...

Aberdeen had a great time at NRB this year! Our new logo was very well received. One observer raved, “Your logo is the best looking and most up-to-date of any at the show!” Many people loved how the new logo divided our company into the branches that we serve:  Aberfast (digital file delivery), Abercap (Captioning Services) and Aberlingo (Language Services). NRB was a great chance to meet producers with ...

Aberdeen hit the road this weekend for the NRB convention and exposition. Check out all Aberdeen has to offer at Booth 817! NRB is the largest recognized event dedicated to the field of Christian communications. It’s a great opportunity to meet new friends and reunite with familiar faces. This year’s convention is packed with inspirational speakers like Chip Ingram, Jack Graham, and Max Lucado. There will be a ...

Access to closed captioning is looking up… to the sky! Continental Airlines is now the first airline to offer closed captioning on more than 100 DIRECTV channels, through LiveTV, the world’s leading provider of in-flight entertainment. Closed captioning will be available on all the Continental flights aboard the Boeing 737 aircraft. Each passenger will have the ability to turn the closed captions on, thus providing accessibility to a ...

To sell, or not to sell, that is the question.  As a “sales guy,” in a sales position, that should be an easy one, right?  It would be except for the fact that I’m really a sales engineer.  That’s my title and I’m stickin’ to it.  It’s the engineer part of that fan dangled moniker that has me asking the “not to sell” part of the aforementioned question.  ...

Three months ago I debuted into the Closed Captioning (CC) world when I started working with Aberdeen Captioning. Needless to say, the many misconceptions and myths that I had about what CC is and how it works have now been completely debunked. Below are the top five things I was surprised to learn: 1. It’s an FCC requirement I used to think that it was optional and TV stations did it just ...

Though we are stuck in one location with one official language in one country, it doesn't mean the videos that we post on the Internet are limited to one's geographical location. It's time to go global since the Internet doesn't have limitations on audience, language, cultures, etc. Producers should aim to go global by adding different languages in the captioning/subtitling when they post their videos on the Web. ...