Posted by mcheu on 10/18/06 23:04

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:36:07 +0200, "Linea Recta"
<mccm.vos@abc.invalid> wrote:

>"John Howells" <john@howells-99.freeserve.co.uk> schreef in bericht
>news:4pn4oeFjoj71U1@individual.net...
>>
>> "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...

CC isn't just text subtitles. It also covers incidental sounds.
Subtitles only cover dialog.

A scene in CC might be something like this:

"You'll pay for this"

"(Gunshot)"

"(Sound of body hitting ground)"

With subtitles, you only get the "You'll pay for this" line of dialog.

It also varies by title. Some TV shows only have the dialog too.

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Thanks.

MCheu

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