Sometimes the CABLE/SATELLITE company screws up the captions!

Mark Rejhon · 10-13-2004, 01:21 AM

Some cable providers "ERASE" the captions accidentally, due to things like equipment limtiations, buggy digital set top boxes, transmissions between cities was missing caption information, etc.

Basically, the captions are there, but your TV don't see them because the cable company screws up!

That's why sometimes somebody sees captions when you visit your mom, but don't see them on your TV on the SAME show -- because some satellite/cable providers are better than other satellite/cable providers!!!!!

Sometimes upgrading from analog cable into digital cable, causes problems, some people can sometimes lose captions -- because of buggy software in some early boxes, which then have to be fixed by upgrading the box, or bugging the cable company if they know the captions work on their satellite TV subscription (among those lucky few who have both cable and satellite -- and noticing that some channels are captioned differently on both, due to glitches!)

And if you are a HDTV television owner, that your HDTV channels have no captions? Until the digital cable box is upgraded; and sometimes it still doesn't work properly for certain TV channels?

It's so inconsistent -- the same TV shows is captioned only on some cable companies and satellite companies -- but not when you're subscribed to others or in a different city with older cable infrastructure, or when using an older model of a digital set top box.

Some people don't have problems -- they are lucky -- they chose a good cable television provider!

Other times, it's the TV program's fault (For example, CNN has no captions at 2:00am....grumble!). But sometimes the missing captions are the cable/satellite company's fault.

***VamPyroX*** · 10-13-2004, 11:30 AM

Where does it say that they delete the captioning to make more room? I've never heard of that happening. I've had captioning disappear on me and it's only because the show wasn't captioned, not the company making it not captioned. Once, I was watching Stargate. That show is always captioned. However, that night it was on television... it wasn't. During that show, I IMed a friend at the other side of town and asked him if he was watching the show. He said he wasn't because it wasn't captioned for that show. I wasn't using two different companies for our service provider... but got the same result. However, the show was on television again later that night... 2 hours later. That rerun was captioned.

Cheri · 10-13-2004, 01:16 PM

I have no problems with my closed captions I do have Directv (satellite)

PowerWCRulez · 10-13-2004, 09:43 PM

I have no problem with a Digital Cable system, they're closed captioningg over 200 channels. Remmy R-911 had no cc on it, till exchanged of my old digital cable box and upgraded to Home Enterintement System (Digital Cable with DVR build-in), it's work! R-911 is BACK on CCing!! yay!!!!!!!!!!!

panda manda · 10-15-2004, 07:50 PM

i has same problem as other with close caption.. most of time when i watch show and caption was there then somehow it disppear for some reason. tht make me so pissed off.. (argh)

10-13-2004, 01:21 AM	#1 (permalink)
Mark Rejhon Registered User Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 291	Sometimes the CABLE/SATELLITE company screws up the captions! Some cable providers "ERASE" the captions accidentally, due to things like equipment limtiations, buggy digital set top boxes, transmissions between cities was missing caption information, etc. Basically, the captions are there, but your TV don't see them because the cable company screws up! That's why sometimes somebody sees captions when you visit your mom, but don't see them on your TV on the SAME show -- because some satellite/cable providers are better than other satellite/cable providers!!!!! Sometimes upgrading from analog cable into digital cable, causes problems, some people can sometimes lose captions -- because of buggy software in some early boxes, which then have to be fixed by upgrading the box, or bugging the cable company if they know the captions work on their satellite TV subscription (among those lucky few who have both cable and satellite -- and noticing that some channels are captioned differently on both, due to glitches!) And if you are a HDTV television owner, that your HDTV channels have no captions? Until the digital cable box is upgraded; and sometimes it still doesn't work properly for certain TV channels? It's so inconsistent -- the same TV shows is captioned only on some cable companies and satellite companies -- but not when you're subscribed to others or in a different city with older cable infrastructure, or when using an older model of a digital set top box. Some people don't have problems -- they are lucky -- they chose a good cable television provider! Other times, it's the TV program's fault (For example, CNN has no captions at 2:00am....grumble!). But sometimes the missing captions are the cable/satellite company's fault. Last edited by Mark Rejhon; 10-13-2004 at 01:24 AM.

10-13-2004, 11:30 AM	#2 (permalink)
*VamPyroX* bloody phreak from hell Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Hell Posts: 27,872	Where does it say that they delete the captioning to make more room? I've never heard of that happening. I've had captioning disappear on me and it's only because the show wasn't captioned, not the company making it not captioned. Once, I was watching Stargate. That show is always captioned. However, that night it was on television... it wasn't. During that show, I IMed a friend at the other side of town and asked him if he was watching the show. He said he wasn't because it wasn't captioned for that show. I wasn't using two different companies for our service provider... but got the same result. However, the show was on television again later that night... 2 hours later. That rerun was captioned. __________________ Check out my city... CLICK HERE! (If you already visited yesterday, visit again today!)

10-13-2004, 01:16 PM	#3 (permalink)
Cheri Premium Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Ohio Posts: 21,081	I have no problems with my closed captions I do have Directv (satellite) __________________

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PowerWCRulez Ubuntu Linux User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA Posts: 789 Blog Entries: 1	I have no problem with a Digital Cable system, they're closed captioningg over 200 channels. Remmy R-911 had no cc on it, till exchanged of my old digital cable box and upgraded to Home Enterintement System (Digital Cable with DVR build-in), it's work! R-911 is BACK on CCing!! yay!!!!!!!!!!! __________________ [] Astrospace IRC Chat clients [] Astrospace IRC Web [] Ubuntu Linux [] [] Personal Web & Scammer Alert List [] Wheelchairjunkie [] [] Updated: 9/10/2007 - SK3 is here! [] [] Avatar Pic: Ride on the bus [] [] MyMiniCity (Returned! Finally script working now) [] [] Play Pulltab game on facebook! []

10-15-2004, 07:50 PM	#5 (permalink)
panda manda Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: rochester, ny Posts: 100	i has same problem as other with close caption.. most of time when i watch show and caption was there then somehow it disppear for some reason. tht make me so pissed off.. (argh) __________________

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