/ 05.04.2011 12:00AM
SMPTE Offers Free Download of Broadband Video Closed-Caption Standard
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.: The Society of Motion Picture and Television
Engineers has made its broadband video closed-captioning standards documents
available online for free. The group did so in anticipation of the Federal
Communications Commission adopting Internet program-access rules for the
disabled. SMPTE refers to its broadband video closed-caption standard as “Timed
Text.”
“SMPTE Timed Text enables broadcasters to expand the use of their existing
TV captions into the online media space, while ensuring the preservation of
their integrity,” said Clyde Smith, senior vice president of Global Broadcast
Technology for Turner Entertainment Networks and a SMPTE Fellow. “Its use will
permit the industry to more rapidly migrate programming with captions to the web
and ensure that all consumers’ online experiences will be at least as rich as
they enjoy on TV today.”
The documents are available on the
SMPTE
standards page.