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News from the National Captioning Institute, Inc.

Date: December 10, 2004

Contact (West): Elissa Sarna

818-238-0068 (V/TTY)

Contact (East): Anthony DeMarco

703-917-7600 (V/TTY)

Email: mail@ncicap.org

Web site: www.ncicap.org

What's New in DVD Subtitling and Captioning

What do the Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac and Paul Simon all have in common with Halo 2? No they are not secret characters in the game that you can blow up, and no they are not included on the game’s soundtrack. The answer is NCI, and the services provided are translation and subtitling in various languages. Concerts by the Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac and Paul Simon are being released on DVD by Eagle Rock Entertainment. NCI is providing subtitles in French Canadian and Latin American Spanish. Each concert features 75 minutes of nothing but classic rock as each musician jams the night away playing a collection of their best works.

NCI was also selected to subtitle a bonus DVD distributed with Halo 2, the fastest grossing video game to date with first day sales of over $100 million. Halo 2 has become the big craze for people of all ages, as it is an exciting first person humans vs. aliens shoot-em-up battle-style game. The bonus DVD, which comes with the Limited Collector's Edition, contains a documentary, featurettes on game design and animation, commentaries by the developmental team, and deleted scenes. NCI provided translations and subtitles for the DVD in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Korean.

For more information about NCI’s DVD Subtitling and Captioning Services, click here.

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About NCI
NCI is headquartered in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and also has production facilities in Burbank, CA; Dallas, TX; and London, England. The nonprofit National Captioning Institute is the global captioning leader, supplying the highest quality captioning and related services for broadcast and cable television, home video and DVD, and government and corporate video programming.

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