AC4 codec needed for 'true accessibility'

Stemming from Sky’s announcement that they are making Game of Thrones accessible to the visually impaired, Advanced Television published a follow-up article from a response they received from Rick Moore of the UK’s Royal National Institute for the Blind.

Rick says, “While Dolby have embraced this and developed a way of overlaying the AD soundtrack onto an Atmos audio file, TV broadcasters, movie studios and Blu-Ray manufacturers are slow to adopt this AC-4 codec. With TV shows like Game of Thrones being broadcast in Atmos, along with many Netflix series and original movies, sports broadcasts and documentaries picking up the ultra-real effects of Atmos sound, isn’t it something we, as people with sight loss, should be shouting about?”

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