CV - CaptiView Closed Captioned Impressions

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My company gave us an afternoon off and bought us movie tickets to watch Hunger Games today. This is my first time in about ten years I've watch a movie at the theater. This theater happened to have CaptiView Closed Captioned device.

Overall I had pretty good experience with this device. Two minor issues I noticed:

1) The texts appear and then disappear quite a bit quicker than typical closed captioning from TV. So I had to keep an eye on the device's display quite often.
2) Every once in a while the texts would not complete the sentence. I would get a blank screen instead of seeing the remaining words to fill the sentence. It sounds like timing issue between CV device and the projector.

I was pretty surprised it was battery operated and wireless. The wireless part may be a little buggy and responsible for some missing texts. I didn't not have any focusing issues between the device and movie screen.

Peter
 
peternagy said:
1) The texts appear and then disappear quite a bit quicker than typical closed captioning from TV. So I had to keep an eye on the device's display quite often.
2) Every once in a while the texts would not complete the sentence. I would get a blank screen instead of seeing the remaining words to fill the sentence. It sounds like timing issue between CV device and the projector.


Peter
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Were you the only one who used the device at that time? If not, did others have the same problem, too? I hate it when it is captioned too fast, I won't be able to understand what they are saying. At theaters, unfortunately we can't rewind it if we miss some captions. I always rewind a few seconds in case I miss the captions on DVDs and DVR so I can understand it better.

Anyway the point is that if all CV movies are having the issues you mentioned, then I don't think it's worth it. Those issues are not minor, they are major for most of deaf people like me.
 
I am not sure if I was the only one using the device. Even if it worked perfectly, I personally would rather watch Blu-ray movies with my 65" plasma TV. My TV seems to be better quality than at the theater. I could see some graininess on the screen at the theater and I didn't think the picture was sharp. I would rather lie down on a sofa in my house watching TV than sitting upright for over 2 hours in a theater.

Have you tried this CV device?

Peter
 
No, I haven't tried it yet but I don't think I want to.

I prefer watching BD movies on my 55" LED TV at home like you do. More comfortable and private, that's called home entertainment. That way I can pause, rewind, replay or skip any scene anytime via HTPC using XBMC which can download subtitles automatically. (More explanation in my thread "XBMC")

I have watched so many 1080p movie torrents even one week to two months earlier before they are released on DVD/BD if you know what I mean (I have not rented/purchased a movie for a long time).
 
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