|
|
Posted by Neil Harrington on 08/18/07 01:30
"Andrew Rossmann" <andysnewsreply@no_junk.comcast.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.212fc63b467bedee989908@newsgroups.comcast.net...
> In article <w8KdncSG1-wAU1nbnZ2dnUVZ_gOdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
> not@home.today says...
>> 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?
>
> If you are using an HDMI connection, the I assume it is an upconverting
> DVD player.
Right.
> It's possible it doesn't know how to convert CC into the
> digital format, which is different.
>
> What MIGHT work is configuring your DVD player to output 480i or 480p,
> and letting your TV do any upconversion to it's native resolution.
Thanks, I'll try that.
Neil
Navigation:
[Reply to this message]
|