
Warner Bros. makes its releases available with open and closed captions for the deaf and hard-of-hearing audience. Warner Bros. DVDs have captioning or subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, and some titles have a description narration track for the blind. Warner Bros. also provides video description, captioning, and subtitles on the enhanced content (extra features) of the DVDs of all new theatrical releases. In 2006, 19 Warner Bros. releases were captioned, including Superman Returns, Happy Feet and The Departed; eight were released with video description. In 2007, all 22 releases were captioned and nine were also released with video description. At Turner, TNT carries an average of 26 descriptive video service hours per week and TCM carries video description on approximately 35 theatrical features per month or approximately 70 descriptive video service hours.
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