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Posted by Neil Harrington on 08/18/07 01:31
<xeaglecrest@att.net> wrote in message news:46C5B0AA.4F80@att.net...
> 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
Thanks. I'll get an S-Video cable then.
Neil
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