Posted by Jukka Aho on 10/19/06 21:58

Bill's News wrote:

> Most DVDs which I have are English spoken language. Among those most
> have an English subtitle track, which appears similar to CC in that
> descriptive data accompanies dialogue. But, when I play one which
> does not have an English subtitle track, I'd love to be able to play a
> CC track. I sampled only a few of the collection since this thread
> began and find none for which the player, the monitor, or the software
> players on the PC will offer a CC on/off option.

Does any of your DVDs have the "CC" logo on the sleeve? That might
indicate something. Or then again, perhaps not. Wouldn't be the first
time DVD features are misadvertised on the packaging.

Then there are some manufacturers which apparently just ignore the "CC"
feature altogether:

<http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/showpost.php?p=14039
45&postcount=25>

(Unfortunately, I can't offer you any example of a DVD title that would
certainly have line 21 "CC" data on it as I live in a PAL country
myself. I haven't really been buying movies from overseas. All of my
NTSC format DVDs are personal home-video type material. Perhaps the
original poster could reveal the name of the title he was viewing.)

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znark

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