There is a huge range of accommodations that may or may not work for us. Rear Window Captioning is one way of making the theaters accessible to most of these people with hearing losses. Assistive listening devices work for some, not others. Most theaters don't even get them compatible with hearing aids. There is also the matter of making sure the devices work, the batteries are charged and that people don't walk off with them.
Open captions is a big turnoff with the non-hearing impaired population.
So even though Rear Window is not necessarily the first choice with hearing-impaired viewers, it is currently, probably, the best compromise for all parties concerned. Which brings me at last to his pitiful excuse, that the cinemas can't afford it. All I see around here are huge multiplex cinemas that can see fit to double their size of movie offerings and increase their prices by 25 percent. If nothing else, they can pass the costs on to Hollywood and have those stars that make mega-millions per film to help pay for it. This technology Moyer finds frivolous will benefit far more people like him, who are likely to acquire a hearing loss, than like me, who were born with a loss.