In addition to the NCMACASL blog, Feedfliks and Instant Watcher also list the 230+ English-captioned movies and TV shows. With Feedfliks you can search or list "Instant Watch with Subtitles:"
On the Netflix Blog in mid-2009 Netflix Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt wrote that they expected to roll out captions in 2010 for Silverlight clients, and CE clients through updates.
Awesome! Thanks for letting us know!
Posted by: Grant Laird Jr | November 16, 2010 at 03:27 AM
Anyone else hate that the subtitles are bright yellow? They are distractingly ugly and mess up the color palette, especially for black and white films. Subtitles are meant for the hearing-impaired, not the visually-impaired!
Posted by: sc | November 16, 2010 at 03:42 AM
Has anyone else noticed that "instantwatcher" has recently gotten rid of the "Gay & Lesbian" subcategory? Anybody know why?
Posted by: jjfromnyc | November 16, 2010 at 04:58 AM
There are no deaf Gay & Lesbians?
LOL. Kidding....
Posted by: Crow550 | November 16, 2010 at 06:23 AM
I would like a way to search for digital 5.1 titles.
Posted by: James | November 16, 2010 at 08:32 AM
Its too little too late. Netflix did not care about those with hearing impairments before. They didn't listen to them, and chose instead to invest in other technologies to make profit. Now since they have no real projects to work on, they now give them captions? Please!
Posted by: Ian | November 16, 2010 at 11:22 AM
@Ian I'm willing to bet that it has more to do with content rights than profit.
Posted by: intheknow | November 16, 2010 at 12:23 PM
@ IAN...are you claiming business want to make a profit?
Posted by: things | November 16, 2010 at 12:29 PM
[...intro music...]
Some people's lips are hard to read
Other people's are down right rude
But the last thing I want to do
Is post something crude
Has anyone else noticed
That sometimes the audio censored
Is still readable in the CC world?
[laughing...music fades...]
Posted by: dAVe | November 16, 2010 at 12:35 PM
@sc - yeah they are yellow because they used to be black and nearly invisible for many black and white movies. Although I agree they are often UNNECESSARILY BIG and bright
Posted by: TG | November 16, 2010 at 02:49 PM
roku player the number one devices need subtitles
Posted by: noor | November 16, 2010 at 07:26 PM
Feedfliks seems a bit dead
Posted by: Whipped | November 16, 2010 at 11:23 PM
Last week Microsoft released the beta version of their free web site development tool WebMatrix.
It includes a ton of options and tools including a lot of php applications as well as .NET applications.
One of the options which I haven't used yet is Netflix. Apparently Webmatrix exposes the Netflix API. If I'm right about this, it means that there will be even more 3rd party applications for Netflix.
Posted by: PatB | November 17, 2010 at 01:19 PM
@sc I find trying (and failing) to read white subtitles on white or light backgrounds far more obnoxious than any distractingly readable bright yellow subs.
Posted by: fisty | November 17, 2010 at 04:35 PM
subtitles should be white with a thin black outline around each letter, so it's always readable.
Posted by: sc | November 18, 2010 at 07:20 AM