Sound Associates’ Personal Captioning System (PCS) is a wireless handheld device featuring a colour LCD that deaf patrons can take to their seat. Captions are sent to the device synchronised to the show’s lighting cues, so the text is always in sync. The handheld uses a light polarising filter so theatregoers sitting nearby are not distracted.
The system is currently being used for the musical Big River at the American Airline Theatre in New York.
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American Broadcasting Corporation on Personal Captioning in Chicago