Posted by Bill's News on 10/19/06 23:56

Jukka Aho wrote:
> 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.)

Thanks anyway. I've learned a bit more from having read this thread.
It may not be possible, with the combination of equipment I have on
hand, as it's an all digital system - no analog connections other than
PC capture from S-Video out on the HDVRs. I've not noticed a CC logo
on the DVD jackets, but will thumb through the pile and see what I
come up with.

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