Posted by Derek Janssen on 10/08/07 23:56

nick wrote:

> Senior moment here -- trying to turn a feature off, but can't
> figger what it's called. No idea when or how it got turned on.
>
> Whatdyacallit when -- watching a program and listening to the dialog,
> but a ghostly voice comes over describing the scene, as in "Mabel
> walks to the door" while in the picture Mabel walks to the door.
>
> It's obviously a feature for hearing impaired "watchers" who listen as
> the video scene is described. I wanna turn it OFF but can't remember
> wot itz called. Kina like an audio closed-captioning.

Wot itz called is "Visual description for the Blind" (it doesn't work as
well for the hearing-impaired ;) )--
And it means you've got your TV's audio set on Second-language setting,
and probably watching PBS.

Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net

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