I’m not sure how much of the content on iTunes is captioned or subtitled, but I’m pretty sure it’s significantly more than Amazon currently offers, given the degree to which captions and subtitles are supported by iOS.

Amazon’s slowly improving, but they’re kind of a day late and a dollar short.

I’d bought a KindleHD mainly to compare to Google’s Nexus7, and out of curiosity
to see if playing videos on the KindleHD would work out ok, in real life

In a nutshell, for myself only, I would say no.

First, we have only middling DSL speeds here, and downloads take a long time.
“Life of Pi” (in HD) was perhaps 9+ gb, and probably took 14-17 hours to download,
with the very last bits taking the longest (something akin to Zeno’s paradox, I guess)

Second, 32gb on-board space on the kindle would mean space for 2-3 movies at best.

Third, no captions on the HDMI output? Big Show-stopper right there.

I’m curious to see if no-captions-on-HDMI-Out is a common issue, say for
laptops with HDMI output. (I had been in process of setting up such a laptop,
sorta/kinda a mini-HTPC, I haven’t had the time to finish yet ..)

Lastly, I had wondered if Amazon’s captioning was (slightly?) proprietary.

Not many of Amazon’s video offerings have any captioning at all.
Asof the past 6-months, things are improving, a little bit, at least for
content newer than 2007 (2008?)

While not deaf, I’m profoundly HOH myself, and I’ve been chasing down this rabbit-hole
for the past 2 years or so, of trying out various streaming devices (and services), looking
for those with the best captioning options (if they have captioning at all). In the beginning,
closed-captioning was close to nonexistent. (not counting foreign films with embedded subtitles)

Vermin King: The Twitter thing was a recent-ish addition, so it probably wasn’t there the last time you visited.

We’re currently setting up the backer forums and doing some additional website work to accommodate the second stage funding mechanism, and we’re getting back to work on the game itself shortly afterwards.

The backer forums are supposed to be up within a couple of weeks and fully live once the Kickstarter funds. Most of the current chatter is on the KS page, the Facebook page, and scattered across the Internet. We also have a dev blog at http://www.thegallerygame.com that we’re going to be making heavy use of alongside the backer forum.