Something nifty about CSI

There is no shortage of nifty things about CSI. But one really nifty thing, the second audio channel is descriptive video narration. My sister and I watch plenty of forensic shows on cable; Medical Detectives, Forensic Files (same people behind both of those), The New Detectives, The Investigators, Dr. G, and well most of the rest of them. Yet it is the fiction forensic show that gets the descriptive track. I suspect it's the network doing the descriptive track since it isn't on the repeats on Spike.

Hello? Discovery? Court TV? Do you think you could reach out to the blind a little more? You have such nifty programming, but it could be even niftier.

I actually don't find the descriptive audio distracting most of the time. It's kind of like subtitles or closed captioning, both of which only occasionally cover anything important on the screen. And unlike closed captioning the placement of which is largely controlled by your TV, the people who make the descriptive audio can carefully work it into the spaces in the dialog. So in some ways it's less invasive than closed captioning.