Will This Be Released As A Region 1 DVD?

I’ve had a look at most sites, but I’ve come across as a blank…the film has only just been released for the first time on DVD, and we’ve waited for it for years. Sorry to hear of your frustrations. Giving a F to both Optimum and in particular, the British Film Industry is a little harsh, is it not? One day it may have the HoH that is needed, but it only has its Mono soundtrack. I hope so, for it would have been a fitting gesture, even if a film about “blindness” doesn’t have the “worded description” running along its narrative, as they do in some cinemas, doesn’t make Mandy and all involved a bad experience.

When was it actually shown by the BBC with subtitles?

I dunno, I gave Optimum and the British film industry an F in a fit of pique, though having thought about it, it remains only with Optimum - I can hardly give the entire film industry an F mark, now, without very good reason, can I?

I still find it extremely annoying that this, and many other, British films will get released on DVD without subtitles, while films from everywhere else do. This particular film raised my ire because of its subject matter. For God's sake, I own a good film starring Gong Li raising a deaf child, and I can comprehend it, but not this, one from my own country.

I can't comment on audio description - I possibly appear self-centred in only moaning about what I need, (which sure as hell ain't audio description!), but to be frank, it is difficult for blind people to access the internet as easily as the rest of us yet. When they can, and they will one day, they will complain, and all power to their elbows.

I can't remember when this film was shown with subtitles, by the way, but laws are very stringent on the terrestrial channels nowadays when it comes to subtitling. Just 15 years ago, very few programmes were ever shown with subtitles, but now it's near 100% penetration. This means that many (completely obscure) films will get shown on TV with subtitles, but those exact same films may be available on DVD without, for the simple reason that the DVD company releasing them have to produce the subtitles themselves - for whatever reason, they don't go to the TV companies.

Anyway, that'd be great if I was waiting by with my video recorder to tape films as the channels decide to show them again, but I'm not, because I work, and I want this stuff available just when I want it, as it is for 99% of other people.