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The World’s first fully accessible DVD

Click here for the only information I could find on this, having heard about it on the radio tonight. The BBC has released the latest series of Doctor Who on a DVD it describes as the World’s first that is fully accessible, meaning that it has audio menus for everything, simple button press menus that don’t require visual navigation, and audio captioning on every scene, as well as the usual sub-titles.

This is really cool stuff. We try hard to impress our clients with the importance of accessibility. It’s a legal requirement of course, but developments like this make the argument a lot easier.

Picture of Doctor Who and Rose Tyler

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PS3 madness

http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20061117PR200.html

Materials and manufacturing costs for the 20GB model exceed the suggested retail price of US$499 by a total of $306.85. For the 60GB version, costs exceed the US$599 price by US$241.35. And look what people are doing to them once they’ve got them out of the store:

Excellent sledge-hammer action.

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