Posted by Linea Recta on 10/19/06 14:57

"mcheu" <mpcheu@yahoo.com> schreef in bericht
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> 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.


Yes that's clear to me now. Thanks.



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