{"id":535968,"date":"2010-04-20T16:15:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T20:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004765"},"modified":"2010-04-20T15:34:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T19:34:43","slug":"netflix-rolls-out-some-captions-for-streaming-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535968","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Rolls Out Some Captions For Streaming Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/Subtitles-thumb-250x170-39506.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Netflix streaming is great. If you&#8217;re like me and most of your Netflix queue consists of TV series and independent movies, it&#8217;s the best deal in entertainment. One of its major flaws, though, is that video streams lack captions or closed-captioning. Netflix is starting to fix this problem&#8230;but only for a limited number of videos and only for users who stream on their Mac or Windows PCs.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.netflix.com\/2010\/04\/subtitles-now-available-for-some-titles.html\">official Netflix blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer at Netflix. As I  promised last year, I&#8217;m pleased to report that today we have enabled closed captioning for some TV episodes and movies that you can watch instantly on your PC or Mac. Although it&#8217;s a limited library of content with subtitles available &#8211; about 100 titles &#8211; we now have released the technology and we will be working to fill in the library over time.<\/p>\n<p>We have similar technology working in the lab for some of our game console, Blu-ray, and DTV platforms, which will roll out in releases starting this fall, along with support for 5.1 audio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Since I stream on a Roku, this seems to leave me behind, but it&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.netflix.com\/2010\/04\/subtitles-now-available-for-some-titles.html\">Subtitles Now Available for Some Titles for PC\/Mac Viewing<\/a> <em>(Thanks, trixare4kids!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix streaming is great. If you&#8217;re like me and most of your Netflix queue consists of TV series and independent movies, it&#8217;s the best deal in entertainment. One of its major flaws, though, is that video streams lack captions or closed-captioning. Netflix is starting to fix this problem&#8230;but only for a limited number of videos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}