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Posted by xeaglecrest on 08/17/07 14:29
Neil Harrington wrote:
>
> I recently bought a 32" LCD HDTV (Samsung LN-T3242H), and I love it. But I'm
> having a problem that I never had with CRT TVs -- when watching DVDs with
> closed captioning, the captioning doesn't appear when I'm using the HDMI
> connection. Subtitles work fine, but many (especially older) DVDs have
> subtitles only in French or Spanish, and only closed captioning in English.
> Pressing the "Caption" button on the TV remote just gives a "Not available"
> message on screen, and nothing I can do at the player end (Panasonic
> DVD-S53) helps either. On TV channels, whether digital or analog, CC works
> fine.
>
> When I connect the player by component cables I don't get captioning either.
> When I connect by the old standard yellow-red-white cables for video and
> audio I get the captioning just fine, but of course with a noticeably
> inferior picture.
>
> So my questions are:
>
> 1. Why doesn't CC work with HDMI or component connections?
>
> 2. If I get an S-video cable, which I presume will give me at least some
> improvement over composite, will CC work with that?
>
> (I have studied the manuals carefully and cannot find answers to these
> questions.)
>
> Neil
Yes, CC are passed thru the composite and S-Video cables.
-Bill
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