Posted by Linea Recta on 10/19/06 15:19

"Jukka Aho" <jukka.aho@iki.fi> schreef in bericht
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> Bill's News wrote:
>
> > Linea Recta wrote:
> >
> >> It seems there is a confusing difference between the so called DVD
> >> options: 'subtitles' and 'closed captioning'.
> >> I now have a DVD with no subtitles, but playing it on the PC I
> >> discovered it HAS a closed caption. I can make it visible too on PC
> >> using PowerDVD. However, playng the DVD in the stand alone player, I
> >> cannot display the closed captions, although I have the option for
> >> closed caption activated in the players setup menu. What a shambles
> >> of standards eh...?
>
> > Since CC is an analog standard, I've no idea how it could be present
> > on a digital DVD without the DVD player's knowledge - how would the
> > info get to the blanking interval without the DVD player doing so?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean. The OP, who lives in the Netherlands, says
> he has a DVD - presumably an imported NTSC format movie - with line 21
> CC data on it. (It's not actually stored in "line 21" on the DVD, but as
> a separate data stream that is interspersed with the MPEG video. The DVD
> player is supposed to handle the VBI insertion during playback.) His
> software-based DVD player application recognizes the captions and can
> display them on a PC screen, but the problem is that his stand-alone DVD
> player doesn't seem able to do the same.
>
> Since he is using a European tv set, one plausible explanation is that
> his DVD player _will_ insert the CC data on line 21, as it should, but
> his tv set simply doesn't have a CC decoder that would enable viewing
> it.


TV set is European, but I bought the DVD player (Marquant DVD-333K) and the
HD DVD recorder (LG RH7500) in my country too. However, some test learned
that both devices are able to display both NTSC and PAL DVD's.



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