[games_access] article in escapist magazine

John Bannick jbannick at 7128.com
Wed Dec 12 16:49:23 EST 2007


Reid,

Thanks for this.
I was just about to ask what Open vs. Closed captions were.

John Bannick

At 08:13 PM 12/11/2007, you wrote:
>Oh, someone else wrote the escapist article, very cool.
>
>Unfortunately, GTA: San Andreas is not captioned as the author states.
>What she's talking about is subtitles.
>
>- Subtitles = dialog
>- Captions = dialog + sound effects and music
>- Open Captions = equal captions that are burned into the video signal
>and can't be turned off
>- Closed captions = equal captions that are encoded into the video or
>game data and can be turned on or off at will
>
>-Reid
>
>On Dec 11, 2007 4:56 PM, Reid Kimball <reid at rbkdesign.com> wrote:
> > You're also in the latest Game Developer mag. Nice job!
> >
> >
> > On Dec 11, 2007 4:53 PM, Eelke Folmer <eelke.folmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_127/2708-Gaming-Ability
> > >
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