Now these movie theaters are offering the seat-based captioning device, where you put on your seat's beverage holder. However, I am curious if you will be bothered by screen-based captions (captions on screen) or not. Because there's a basic flaw in the system - that the captioning screen is at the seat, and that makes it impossible to focus on both the captioning and the movie screen at the same time. If you focus on the captioning on the device, then the movie on the screen is out of focus, and if you focus on the movie screen, then the captions are a blur. And for people like myself, trying to focus near and far constantly causes severe eyestrain. I know how hearing people feel about open captioning. We know that at least some of them dislike it, but we don't how widespread that sentiment is.
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