Search for captioned movies with iTunes
If you’re in the USA, the iTunes Store now allows you to easily search for movies with Closed Captions available.
The feature was rolled out earlier this week, and can be accessed using the iTunes Store’s “Power Search”.
You can either go into the Movies section and then select Power Search from the store menu, or select Power Search first and then “Movies” from the pop-up menu. There’s a new checkbox “Search movies that are available with Closed Captioning” under the row of edit text fields, as this screen clip shows:
If you click the checkbox then click the Search button with no other fields filled in, it’ll show you all movies with Closed Captioning available - currently 53 in the USA store.
The checkbox for searching Closed Captions doesn’t appear when searching for TV Shows in the USA store, or at all in any of the other country’s stores as far as I can tell. I hope that once captioned material is available in these other locations that the search function will become active there too.
- Ricky Buchanan, ATMac
Well, in most European countries we don’t get any TV shows or movies in iTunes at all, not even without closed captioning
@Davidn: Neither do we, down here in Australia. It seems to be only the USA, Canada and UK stores which *do* show either TV or Movies actually, from my memory of the ones I checked - and the vast majority of that was only in the USA store.
I checked out the iTunes movies and only about 100 movies on itunes seemed to have captioning. I know that many more movies on CDs have captioning and hope they too will have captioning on iTunes. I like watching movies with captioning even though I do not have a disability, it just helps to understand what is being said. - Herb
@Herbert: I hope iTunes makes close captions available for all captioned movies too - it’s so easy and doesn’t inconvenience those who don’t want captions.