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***VamPyroX*** · 02-19-2008, 03:04 PM

That's something you will have to discuss with your cable company.

Television shows have multiple layers... video, audio, captioning, advertising, etc.

The first 2 layers are video and audio. Those get through with no problems. If problems do occur during the transmission process, other layers may get scrambled or delayed.

Nowadays, it happens more often due to analog versus digital... and cable versus satellite.

I've had this problem a few times before.

There was one show where the captioning was stuck. During the show, two people started arguing the exact same words over and over. (Something like... "Are not!" "Are too!") After this went on for a minute, the two characters were interrupted by their mom and then other talking takes place. However, the captioning kept going back and forth with those two phrases. This went on for the next five minutes before the commercials stopped it. When the commercials ended and the show continued, the captioning was back to normal.

There was another show where the captioning was not lined up with the talking. Instead of the captioning appearing when the talking occurs, it was the captioning appearing one after another. That means, constant captioning all the way through until the entire talking script was done then it stopped.

For instance...

This is the show:

"Hey, we're about to go into slipstream. Hold on." *everyone holds on* *spaceship enters slipstream* *spaceship exits slipstream* "Okay, we're done." *console beeps* "Oh, look... a distress call from the planet ahead." *everyone looks at viewscreen* *everyone watches video of a battle going on* "We better help them. Tell them we're on our way."

This whole thing was 2 minutes long.

Now, the captioning:

"Hey, we're about to go into slipstream. Hold on." "Okay, we're done." "Oh, look... a distress call from the planet ahead." "We better help them. Tell them we're on our way."

This captioning thing lasted 10 seconds long.

There was no waiting during the action sequences. It was just one captioning after another. If you were to read the captioning, you would have read out the entire talking segment of the television show in 20 minutes.

02-19-2008, 03:04 PM	#2 (permalink)
*VamPyroX* bloody phreak from hell Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Hell Posts: 27,044	That's something you will have to discuss with your cable company. Television shows have multiple layers... video, audio, captioning, advertising, etc. The first 2 layers are video and audio. Those get through with no problems. If problems do occur during the transmission process, other layers may get scrambled or delayed. Nowadays, it happens more often due to analog versus digital... and cable versus satellite. I've had this problem a few times before. There was one show where the captioning was stuck. During the show, two people started arguing the exact same words over and over. (Something like... "Are not!" "Are too!") After this went on for a minute, the two characters were interrupted by their mom and then other talking takes place. However, the captioning kept going back and forth with those two phrases. This went on for the next five minutes before the commercials stopped it. When the commercials ended and the show continued, the captioning was back to normal. There was another show where the captioning was not lined up with the talking. Instead of the captioning appearing when the talking occurs, it was the captioning appearing one after another. That means, constant captioning all the way through until the entire talking script was done then it stopped. For instance... This is the show: "Hey, we're about to go into slipstream. Hold on." everyone holds on spaceship enters slipstream spaceship exits slipstream "Okay, we're done." console beeps "Oh, look... a distress call from the planet ahead." everyone looks at viewscreen everyone watches video of a battle going on "We better help them. Tell them we're on our way." This whole thing was 2 minutes long. Now, the captioning: "Hey, we're about to go into slipstream. Hold on." "Okay, we're done." "Oh, look... a distress call from the planet ahead." "We better help them. Tell them we're on our way." This captioning thing lasted 10 seconds long. There was no waiting during the action sequences. It was just one captioning after another. If you were to read the captioning, you would have read out the entire talking segment of the television show in 20 minutes. __________________ Check out my city... CLICK HERE! (If you already visited yesterday, visit again today!)