5.29.2004

Invention 'o the Day 

So this guy is visually impaired, but he's doing a film degree and loves movies. No not something I'd thought about. He watches them mostly on DVD because they include they include commentary for the blind.
I basically can't go to see them in the cinema. I presume cinemas simply don't want to spend the money it would cost to install a system whereby you could plug something into the armrest and listen to a commentary, which, in most cases, seems to be readily available by the time the DVD is released.
Now it would be rather expensive to convert a theater that way, but couldn't they, say, have a small local transmitter and offer receiver walkmans? Another suggestion into the void...