Posted by John Howells on 10/18/06 16:57

"Linea Recta" <mccm.vos@abc.invalid> wrote

> Has TV to do with this? Is this something the TV has to support??

Yes, and yes.

> I never
> change anything on the TV for switching DVD subtitles on or off. Besides,
I
> got my TV from a friend, but I don't have its remote control.

The visible subtitles are created by the DVD player, as a video overlay to
the picture, and are visible in the picture put out by the DVD player.
Closed Captions are an invisible signal in line 21 of the video stream that
has to be decoded by the TV, so has to be enabled in the TV, for those TVs
that support it.

John Howells

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