Are we still needing to watch Live #BBC #TV with a dish or tv aerial if we want #audio-description still, does anyone know? #iPlayer's done a lot to get it's on-demand description content up faster, but what about live?
Yes, its why I keep the TV connected to Freeview. We also have the issue with CH4 and CH5 not allowing on-demand audio description, but I tend not to watch much on those now anyway.
I'm hoping that the launch of the Internet based Freely helps us with this somehow but details are lacking. Also if you have Sky Stream you can view the channels live with audio description through their system.
To my knowledge, there are no legal, live, direct-from-broadcaster TV streams with audio description anywhere in the world. From some responses, it seems that there are some IPTV platforms that may offer access to the AD track, but I don't believe there are any of those in the UK. Happy Thursday.
@jscholes Poland has some (in our CanalPlus app). Some channels rely on the provider's infrastructure for streaming instead of CanalPlus themselves, and they don't have AD, but most channels have it.
@jscholes While that may be true for the networks' streaming services, e.g., ABC/Hulu, CBS/paramount, NBC/Peacock, some traditional TV and IP TV providers do pass through the secondary audio track for the live channels they offer on their respective streaming service in the U.S. @cachondo
@twynn Thanks to your feedback and comments from @miki, I've updated my original comment.
I think my primary aim was to highlight how disappointing it is that in 2007, the iPlayer was a pioneer in the space by being the first streaming service with described VOD material. Since then, they've barely innovated and have been taken over in the race, and in the UK you can still only watch live TV with AD if you have a TV receiver. There are no standalone IPTV services that pass through the secondary audio track(s).
Chris Hallsworth
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in reply to Chris Hallsworth • • •They've got the bloody feed, it's mixed out to Sky, Freesat, VM etc.
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in reply to James Scholes • • •@jscholes It's internet streaming, usually tied to a TV plan for billing.
I know they sell "internet-only" plans now, but I don't know how good they are.
They also do some VOD, and some of that also has audio description.
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in reply to Timothy Wynn • • •@twynn Thanks to your feedback and comments from @miki, I've updated my original comment.
I think my primary aim was to highlight how disappointing it is that in 2007, the iPlayer was a pioneer in the space by being the first streaming service with described VOD material. Since then, they've barely innovated and have been taken over in the race, and in the UK you can still only watch live TV with AD if you have a TV receiver. There are no standalone IPTV services that pass through the secondary audio track(s).
@cachondo
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