Latest figures on audio described DVDs – May 2010

Wednesday, 19 May 2010 10:31

Audio described DVD titles on new release shelves during the month of May 2010 stand at 29% of all titles.  

The DVD titles released since February with audio description are:

• 2012
• Adam
• All About Steve
• Amelia
• Avatar
• Bad Lieutenant
• Blood Creek
• Brothers Bloom, The
• Cloudy
• Did You Hear About the Morgans?
• Fifty Dead Men Walking
• Fourth Kind, The
• Informant, The
• Jennifer’s Body
• Lovely Bones, The
• Mao’s Last Dancer
• Miss March
• Motherhood
• Sherlock Holmes
• Shorts
• Surrogates
• Twilight Saga: New Moon
• Up In the Air
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Zombieland

54% of the Australian Visual Software Distributors Association (AVSDA) members’ theatrical releases on the DVD shelves in May were audio described.  

A total of 89 titles were researched this month. Of these titles, the following were audio described in other regions but not in Australia:

•    An Education and Broken Embraces from Paramount, It's Complicated from Universal and Planet 51 from Sony.

Read this article for the full list of DVDs that you're missing out on.

Media Access Australia has an online complaints form for DVDs without audio description. This provides a direct link to AVSDA, the distributors’ association, in a concise format. AVSDA or the distributor concerned will reply directly to you. Make a complaint about a DVD without audio description.