Posted by Linea Recta on 10/18/06 19:36

"John Howells" <john@howells-99.freeserve.co.uk> schreef in bericht
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>
> "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.


I see, so that sounds like a whole different story than subtitles. Still
wondering about the apparent necessity of two totally different ways to
display some text over a movie. But who am I...



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