{"id":318,"date":"2021-01-06T14:08:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T14:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asicbc.ca\/?page_id=318"},"modified":"2021-09-01T23:57:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T04:57:42","slug":"radio-television-movies-and-other-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/resources-from-a-z\/radio-television-movies-and-other-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio, Television, Movies and Other Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"ms-rteElement-H2\">Movies &#8211; Descriptive Vide\u200bo<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cineplex.com\/Theatres\/described-services\">Cineplex.com &#8211; Described services<\/a>\u00a0is Cineplex Entertainment&#8217;s source for  information regarding their Described Services for the Blind or Visually Impaired including theatre locations which provide the service.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/celalibrary.ca\/\">CELA Library<\/a>\u00a0is one of the world\u2019s largest libraries for people with a print disability. They offer access to hundreds of descriptive videos. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">Through agreements between its eighteen member libraries in British Columbia,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.interlinklibraries.ca\/\">InterLINK<\/a>\u00a0makes it possible for you to use any of their 78 branch locations without charge to obtain descriptive movies and videos.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">The Emmy Award-winning\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/narrativetv.com\/films.htm\">Narrative Television Network<\/a>\u00a0makes movies and television accessible to millions of blind and visually impaired people by unobtrusively adding the voice of a narrator to the existing soundtrack. This Emmy Award-winning programming is now available by making your movie selection from one of the links on their site.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"ms-rteElement-H2\">Movies &#8211; G\u200beneral<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">The\u00a0<a href=\"\/index.php\/resources-from-a-z\/sports-recreation-and-leisure\/access2-entertainment-card\/\">Access2 Entertainment Card<\/a>\u00a0allows a guide, assistant, or attendant accompanying a person with a disability to be admitted to participating movie theatres either for free, or at a reduced rate.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"ms-rteElement-H2\">Rad\u200bio<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acbradio.org\/pweb\/\">ACB Radio<\/a>\u00a0showcases and nurtures the creativity and talents of the blind\/low-vision community from many parts of the world. ACB Radio is heard by a global audience via the internet, and has visitors from over seventy countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">This site also houses hundreds of mp3 files containing formative and entertaining audio material including news releases, radio shows, and interviews. There is a folder for each show, and each folder contains an mp3 file containing a radio show or part of a show.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbrscanada.com\/accessiblechannel.htm\">Accessible Media Inc. (Formerly the National Broadcast Reading Service)<\/a>\u00a0is the world&#8217;s largest broadcast reading service. Accessible Mediais designed to enhance media access and make information more accessible to everyone.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiolovers.com\/\">RadioLovers.com<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; This is an Internet site that contains hundreds of old-time radio shows in mp3 format. These are shows that are in the public domain, so it is legal to download and listen to them.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiosure.com\/\">RadioSure<\/a>\u00a0gives you the smoothest radio listening experience. The main rule is \u2013 it should be simple, reliable and should just work and an added bonus&#8230;it is accessible!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">RadioSure&#8217;s main features are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">More than 17,000 stations in the package<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">Supports most of the internet radio formats \u2013 mp3, wma, ogg vorbis, aac+ and so on<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">Quick and reliable search for your favorite radio stations<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">Smooth switching between stations including crossfade effect<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">Recording what you are listening to and packaging it into separate song files<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">Simultaneous recording of multiple stations<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">Automatic checking for software and radio stations updates<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">Command line parameters for automatization<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">Runs on Windows XP SP3, Vista, Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">UNICODE support \u2013 all domestic stations are perfectly visible and searchable<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"ms-rteElement-H2\">Televi\u200bsion<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbrscanada.com\/accessiblechannel.htm\">The Accessible Channel (TAC-TV)<\/a>\u00a0, operated by Accessible Media Incorporated (AMI), is a national digital television network broadcasting popular movies and TV shows. TAC-TV is the first and only network to broadcast all programs with closed captioning and open description. Settings do not need to be adjusted to activate the description. Described video provides a voice overlay to the program audio track which describes key visual elements not apparent in the original soundtrack. To blind and partially sighted Canadians, it is the equivalent of closed captioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">Shaw Cable offers TAC-TV on channel 888.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">Shaw Direct offers TAC-TV on channel 888.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">Telus TV offers TAC-TV on channel 55.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">Telus Satellite TV offers TAC-TV on channel 48.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movies &#8211; Descriptive Vide\u200bo Cineplex.com &#8211; Described services\u00a0is Cineplex Entertainment&#8217;s source for information regarding their Described Services for the Blind or Visually Impaired including theatre&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/resources-from-a-z\/radio-television-movies-and-other-entertainment\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Radio, Television, Movies and Other Entertainment<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":131,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-318","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/318\/revisions\/1199"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asicbc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}