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Re: Closed-Captioning Sometimes Works, Sometimes Not?? (and DVRs)
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| The problem isn't resolved yet, but I'd like to add a (slightly related)
data point. I discovered that my Samsung TV will not display
closed-captioning if the output is going to the TV via its component
connections. I verified that with another DVD/TV pair: a disc recorded on my
DVR displays captions fine through a TV via its composite feeds, but the
same disc played on the Samsung EDTV (via its component inputs) does not. I
waded through both my and another Samsung EDTV manual and the latter
includes a notice regarding the component connections. (Of course, this is
all distinct from the captioning in many commercial DVDs, I'm not talking
about that.)
"Jim" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:P3UVg.2279$O65.512@bignews5.bellsouth.net...
> Greetings.
>
> My wife and I recently bought a new TV and a DVD/VCR combo for my mother,
> who desperately relies upon closed-captioning. She called last night and
> said that the VCR sometimes fails to handle the captioning properly: she
> said she watched at least one TV show which was captioned properly and
> recorded it at the same time. When she played back the recording, the
> captioning sometimes dropped out completely, sometimes it worked fine. She
> wasn't messing with any of the settings during the recording.
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> Does this make any sense? If so, is the only possible solution to try
> another VCR?
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> Thanks for any help, folks.
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> --
> Jim
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