ZON OPTIMUS SGPS SA PRESS RELEASE
17/ 12/ 2015
NOS has just launched this TV application, which provides subtitles for all programmes on live TV with teletext, automatically at the bottom of the screen.
The inclusive app was created with the goal of offering NOS customers with special needs, in particular those who are hard of hearing, with a way of accessing multimedia contents by providing them with subtitles from the teletext services of the Portuguese channels RTP1, RTP2, SIC, TVI and RTP3, and the children's channels Disney Channel and Disney Júnior.
By accessing the TV Subtitling App, the customer can see which programmes are being broadcast in real time that are available at that particular moment.
Whenever the App is active, this is indicated at the top left hand side of the screen and the subtitles are shown at the bottom. Whenever there are no programmes with subtitles being broadcast, the application immediately informs the user.
The new application is available free of charge for all Iris customers. To access it, just go to the Apps area in the Iris Menu.
NOS at the service of social inclusion
The TV Subtitling App is just one of a number of services that NOS already provides for people with special needs.
To be noted is the fact that over and above this app now launched, NOS has a support line for customers with hearing difficulties (12472), accessible using the video interpreter system, and also provides invoices in braille for people with visual impairment on the Universal service.
NOS was also a pioneer in Portugal for providing films with audio description in its Videoclub. In addition to the script, the 30 or more films included in this selection, have sentences that describe each scene in terms of scenarios, costumes, facial expressions, body language, entry and exit of actors, among other relevant information, so that people with visual impairment have a fuller and richer experience watching the film.
Edifício Campo Grande,
Rua Ator António Silva, 9, Piso 6, Lisboa
T 217 824 700 | comunicação.corporativa@nos.pt | www.nos.pt
João Santos Pereira jsp@ban.pt
T 937 612 332
This innovation from the audio description service in Portuguese is also used in the DVDs that NOS distributes, as well as subtitling in Portuguese and sign language. As part of this service, the DVD "The Birth of Christ" was the first live image film to be edited in Portugal with conditions of equal access for everyone.
NOS is the biggest communications and entertainment group in Portugal. It offers latest generation fixed and mobile phone, television, Internet, voice and data solutions for all market segments. It is leader in Pay TV, new generation broad band services and in cinema exhibition and distribution in Portugal.
In the business segment, it has positioned itself as a sustainable alternative in the Corporate and Mass Business segments, offering a broad portfolio of products and services with tailor made solutions for every sector and businesses of different sizes, complementing its offer with ICT and Cloud services.
NOS is part of the main Portuguese stock exchange index (PSI-20), with a capitalisation in excess of 3.8 thousand million Euros, and has more than 4 million mobile phone, 1.5 million television, 1.5 million fixed telephone and 1,1 million fixed broad band Internet customers.
Edifício Campo Grande,
Rua Ator António Silva, 9, Piso 2, Lisboa
T 931 018 685 | andre.e.filipe@nos.pt | www.nos.pt
BANJoão Santos Pereira jsp@ban.pt
T 937 612 332
Nos SGPS SA issued this content on 2015-12-17 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein. Distributed by Public, unedited and unaltered, on 2016-01-11 12:33:22 UTC
Original Document: http://www.nos.pt/institucional/EN/media/Documents/2015 12 17 TV Subtitling App.pdf
