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PNC Park opened 2001 and home of Pittsburgh Pirates was ranked best stadium in Major League Baseball of 2003 by ESPN, scored in categories such as its warm, intimate interior architecture, friendly staff and accessibility. Accessibility?

Yup, PNC Park scores the best accessible for disability, including Deaf needs for scoreboard to have it captioned. To treat the rare candy for yourself: Look the picture above, far bottom from the scoreboard, caption says: "RIGHT FIELD, NO. 22 XAVIER NADY". It all about black board captioned.

It is no mind that Pittsburgh Pirates hired the full time stenographer, whatever the announcer is saying comes up on the scoreboard in live captioning at every game and every event. Never miss.

The disadvantage part is caption board is separate far away from scoreboard, and it takes more work myself taking visually top and below most of the time. I hardly watch caption farther away from scoreboard because I have eyes of the picture everywhere in most beautiful baseball park in America.

Now the worse part is our Pittsburgh Pirates team sucks and continue sucking, logging into 14 losing season in row (as of 2007) since Barry Bonds left to San Francisco Giants.

Until RIT alma mater Tayler developed his project, Fomdi. Fomdi asks for zip code/city, distance and date for captioned movies in theaters. This is wonderful opportunity for everyone can have quicker way to get the result. I like the idea -- a lot.

I always knew captioned movie tend to come out on Tuesdays and Wednesdays few times each month in Pittsburgh Loews Waterfront, ten miles away from my home. I asked Fomdi for 15146, 40-mi and the day (3/21). Fomdi searched and says there are none. InSight listed the opening movie, "Nanny McPhee" on 3/21. Is Fomdi having a technical difficulties?

I contacted Tayler about this situation, and he pointed that Loews theater just merged with AMC, and experiencing transitional issues, and will be appearing at Movietickets.com, and it will be found by Fomdi. Hmm, Fomdi is gonna wait, so do I.

I sent my feedback suggestion to Tayler to improve Fomdi - such as Fomdi's blog (log version number (what-it-is), announcements, etc), syndication feeds and date ranges. I am hoping Fomdi to have better upgrades and become robot's best friend!

I am excited to see more Deaf web developers bringing the dynamic sites on deaf related web sites unlike any other.

You might aware my deaf friend and I won the Letter of the Month in entry #252: Luigi Living a Lie and entry #439: Lend Him An Ear? Yet again this month, Electronic Gaming Monthly number #195 Letter of the Month winner about the wanting to have an opinion for video game to have subtitled (captioned) for accessible to Deaf.

Last week, I posted my entry, Pittsburgh OC movie lackstuer. In this very last paragrah, I was asked them a suggestion the XML/RSS feed in their website. Now finally, they replied back:

I’m not quite happy with InSight Cinema not providing more OC movies in Pittsburgh area in last two years. The OC movie comes out average one time in two months. For me, I almost never miss attending the OC movies, I can see the average of ten people (either hearing or deaf) attended OC movies. Rarely, I saw more than 30 deaf or hearing people attended only watch the blockbuster movies. Occasionally, the OC movies tend to schedule on Tuesdays and Wednesdays; each have afternoon and night times.

From 1999 to 2003, I lived in Rochester for four years during my college times at RIT, I was pleased to have my flexible schedule times to visit open captioned (OC) movies in one place. An OC movie schedule has seven days a week to show all times. That is because of, Rochester is the largest deaf community in United States, according to word-of-mouth from Deaf Heritage class.

Is the result the not enough for the advertisement to Pittsburgh people to know when OC movie is coming out in Pittsburgh area? Or the lack of schedule times? Lack of movie popularity? My deaf friend, Linda Langer has done great job advertising in Yahoo Groups: Pittsburgh Events to send the subscription emails. I felt it is still not enough for me.

Last week I visited there is new website of social resource for the deaf in their city – DeafDC.com. This site provides the benefit information about deaf events and career opportunities in Washington, D.C. Even, they have schedule of OC movies coming out. And DPHH too. I already knew in my dream a year ago that I would like to create like that one in Pittsburgh deaf site. The problem is who will be motivate to have daily responsibilities over the site to update?

Anyway, one last thing, I sent email to InSight Cinema few weeks ago for my question – I would like to see XML/RSS feed to update the OC movie dates and places in their site; I could feed them in my website. From now, I have heard nothing from them. Sigh.

I received new Electronic Gaming Monthly August 2004 (Number 181) today in mail, and I am very happy to see yet another EGM’s Letter of the Month award by my deaf good friend, Sam Carriger:

Congratulations, Sam! As you didn’t know I helped Sam to add some of my few ideas and polished on his article. By his permission, I posted his article on my blog - May 13th.

It’s amazing that two deaf people won EGM’s Letter of the Month in same year (include me, won Jan 2004 - Luigi Living a Lie.)

Congrats to Sam again!

UPDATE: I found the interesting article about Terry Stewart as Deaf MAC Gamer, he was having a difficuly experience playing with audio in Myst.

I talked to my friend, Sam via AIM, and he asked me to share his words for the letter to video game industries and magazine & online publications.   The letter is about some of the games does not have subtitles, the deaf gamers filed a compliant to require subtitles in all games.

As being a Deaf Gamer, Subtitles should be an Industry Standard for Videogames.

While several of my deaf friends and I did have some fun with games such as Halo, Tony Hawk Underground, or The Simpsons: Hit and Run. The one of the biggest thing what really disappoints us, is the lack of subtitles. We hardly understand what the captain is saying in Halo or what the characters are saying in The Simpsons: Hit and Run or Tony Hawk Underground. We can assume that the captain is giving us orders in Halo and there are humorous lines spoken in The Simpsons: Hit and Run and Tony Hawk Underground, but we lose that experience whereas hearing people get to enjoy it. We should not have to feel left out at all like that. Now you may say The Simpsons: Hit and Run and Tony Hawk Underground lose profit from us deaf gamers.

While me and several of my friends have played games such as Grand Theft Auto 3 and True Crime: Streets of L.A.. We really appreciate the game containing subtitles. When playing GTA3, there are movie scenes between missions with subtitles in which makes it easier for us to comprehend what to do and make the game more fun and interesting. Same thing goes for True Crime, they do have quite a bit of humor and these games make us feel we are more equal to the society into the gaming world.

Games such as GTA3, True Crimes, and several others had gained popularity among me and other deaf people in community because of subtitles into those games. We do not have to feel the need to take it back to the store for a refund due to discrimination or lack of understanding it. If you wonder, there is about a total of 21 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the US alone. Of course it is population count from infant to old age, and profound deaf to minor hearing loss. If a game could reach out to at least 10,000 deaf gamers, then the companies should think this is still beneficial to them rather than losing 10,000 deaf customers.

Now, the subtitles are not only beneficial to deaf gamers, but it can be a great for hearing gamers who had to turn their sound off at night to be quiet and can still read and enjoy the game. Having subtitles may as well increase vocabulary and improve reading skills. These subtitles should have an option whether to it turn on or off at the game options’ selection screen.

Again, the subtitles should be an industry standard for all videogames. When we go out to rent or buy movies, we always look for the Closed Captioned (CC) or English Subtitled. I think videogames should have to add a certain label on game cases like on the back of those DVD movies. These are a way video game industries will give second thoughts about releasing games and realize this is important factor to increase more deaf gamers.

-Samuel C.

I have heard (from the critics) the final installment of LOTR: The Return of the King are great, and the best of the series.   I am dying to see this movie since it already came out in the theaters, and it doesn't have open captioned or subtitled.   I have to wait when the InSight Cinema open captioned come out in Pittsburgh area.