- From: Goldstein, Glenn <glenn.goldstein@viacom.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 19:40:07 +0000
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- CC: "public-texttracks@w3.org" <public-texttracks@w3.org>, "Loretta Guarino Reid" <lorettaguarino@google.com>
ian - are you making the point that webVTT has lots of interesting uses, but rendering TV-style captions is not one of them? rollup captions are a significant aspect of live television captioning, and if we are going to faithfully present those captions on the internet, then it is essential that the format support the rollup representation and rendering. -glenn Glenn Goldstein | Vice President, Media Technology Strategy | VIACOM glenng@mtvi.com | 212-846-3210 | 1515 Broadway, New York NY 10036 -----Original Message----- From: Ian Hickson [mailto:ian@hixie.ch] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 1:45 PM To: Silvia Pfeiffer Cc: public-texttracks@w3.org; Loretta Guarino Reid Subject: Re: Support for advanced caption features (inc rollup) On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > > As part of an effort to substantially support all CEA-608 and CEA-708 > features in VTT I continue to believe that this is a misguided effort that substantially misunderstands the point of WebVTT. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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