Netflix has announced that it will finally add subtitles to its video streaming library, however, not until next year.
CEO Reed Hastings says the lack of subtitles has been one of the biggest complaints about the service's "Watch Instantly" streaming library.
Netflix will finish creating the text files that will "give customers the option of enacting captions on digital titles on devices ... [ read the full article ]
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What les1941 is saying is that "most of us who have hearing problems rent DVD's instead of streaming movies on netflix because netflix doesn't have the closed captions". He just didn't word it very well.
I give a big HORRAY to netflix for finally deciding to add these closed captions. I just wish we didn't have to wait another year. But, I've been a netflix subscriber continuously since 2000, so what's another year??! I'll just be happy when I'll be able to make better use of their streaming when they finally add the captions.
I wonder if they'll be supported on all "watching devices", or only on Windows devices? I really want to stream my netflix on my Tivo (and have captions)
You have to open you mind, Killerbug. Captioning is used by far more people than "the hearing impaired" (and who are not an inconsequential number anyway!). Over 100 million Americans, including 28 million individuals with hearing loss, 30 million people for whom English is a second language, 27 million illiterate adults, 12 million children learning how to read and 4 million remedial readers are among those who often turn on captioning on TV. Why wouldn't they do on these videoclips.
