Vizio won't show DVD CC; why?!

Dory · 12-06-2009, 12:09 AM

I have a Vizio 50" LCD connected to a Sony DVD player via component (not HDMI). It will not show CC on my DVDs.

I don't mean subtitles; Deaf folk know there is big difference between CC and subtitles, right?!

I have been through the Vizio manual and I can't figure out how to turn on CC for DVDs. It shows CC great on all my DTV channels. I went through the Sony manual and no luck there, either.

I know the CC is on the DVD because the CC shows up on old TV. But not on my new TV! So frustrating that CC works on my old crappy TV but not on the TV I spent $1800 on!

The Highlander · 12-06-2009, 01:06 AM

Another Iowa. No wonder.

Just go to sony dvd player's setup *without a disc* and you will see CC in there to enable.

Lighthouse77 · 12-06-2009, 10:26 AM

Highlander, you are insulting. I hope you edit your post before Dory sees it.

**Bottesini** · 12-06-2009, 11:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Highlander

Another Iowa. No wonder.

Just go to sony dvd player's setup *without a disc* and you will see CC in there to enable.

WHat do you mean by that? I am an Iowan with Vizio plasma who can set up for CC or SDH on my equipment!

I don't think Iowa is part of the equation if you were referring to me.

Steel X · 12-06-2009, 11:22 AM

Are you using regular AV cables or component cables? If using component cables, CC won't work that way.

The Highlander · 12-06-2009, 11:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lighthouse77

Highlander, you are insulting. I hope you edit your post before Dory sees it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bottesini

WHat do you mean by that? I am an Iowan with Vizio plasma who can set up for CC or SDH on my equipment!

I don't think Iowa is part of the equation if you were referring to me.

No, it was not insult. I live Iowa area.

The Highlander · 12-06-2009, 11:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steel X

Are you using regular AV cables or component cables? If using component cables, CC won't work that way.

Nah.

AV and Component cable are still work great with CC for any LCD/Plasma.

HMDI is work great for Player/DVR/media center with built-in CC.

Ocie Denver · 12-06-2009, 12:41 PM

Dory, have you turn on the subtitles in DVD's main menu? Or look up for CC option in DVD player's setup menu?

Dory · 12-06-2009, 01:06 PM

Thanks, everyone! I'm'a take all the discs out and check the DVD settings.

P.S. At first I thought, hey Iowa ppl aren't dumb, but then I see you're kidding

**Bottesini** · 12-06-2009, 01:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Highlander

No, it was not insult. I live Iowa area.

Oh! Whoops. Sorry about that. You never said.

The Highlander · 12-06-2009, 04:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dory

Thanks, everyone! I'm'a take all the discs out and check the DVD settings.

P.S. At first I thought, hey Iowa ppl aren't dumb, but then I see you're kidding

That's great, you solved the problem.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bottesini

Oh! Whoops. Sorry about that. You never said.

That's fine, I was mean that Iowa people have a lot bad luck. I had to help them to solve the problem and good luck.

Dory · 12-06-2009, 07:20 PM

I took out all DVDs and got my manuals back out for both DVD and TV. Worked with both TV menu and DVD menu for about an hour each and still have no luck.

I think it's DVD player's fault.

TV: I have menu set to automatically have CC on for both analog and digital.

DVD player: I found no CC settings whatsoever. Not even in the index at the end of the manual! Only options for subtitles.

Still have no captions from this closed captioned DVD. The back of the box says it's CC and the CC shows up on the old TV/DVD so it's not the DVD's fault.

I'm so frustrated because I am so NOT dumb about technological things (that's not a zing at you, Highlander, we're ok!) and in fact, I'm a pretty big gadget queen. But I've had this set up for a couple years and have never been able to figure it out. I have googled the shit out of it. I wish I had done better research before I bought these TV and DVD player, but I've never had trouble with Sony before so didn't think CC would be a problem with this player.

Thanks for all your help anyway, guys! My first "real" post in these forums and I'm really happy with the community you guys have here!

Dory

**Banjo** · 12-06-2009, 08:31 PM

Check the DVD player to see if the progressive mode is enabled, if it is. Disable it or switch it to interlaced mode.

PowerWCRulez · 12-06-2009, 10:26 PM

Yep that's what Banjo said, turn off the progressive, the player compressed would not show the CC. Don't buy if the setting don't have in the menu and get non-progressive DVD player.

Or if you have xbox 360, you can use to play DVD. the Xbox 360 don't have progressive mode.

My older DVD player don't have progressive

Dory · 12-06-2009, 11:57 PM

I got all kinds of stoked when I read this.

Husband grabbed remote and turned off progressive. Still not work.

*grabs an elephant gun and points at TV*
*reconsiders and puts it down with a big sigh*

Lighthouse77 · 12-07-2009, 01:03 AM

are you watching any rentals? Like "UP" if so, they have taken out the special bonuses for rental and subtitles have been removed because of that. Some DVD movies don't have CC but have subtitles.

**Foxrac** · 12-07-2009, 05:15 AM

I had tried to watch DVD movies on Xbox 360 with component cable and CC won't show from TV and Xbox 360 don't have option to turn CC on.

**Banjo** · 12-07-2009, 09:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dory

I got all kinds of stoked when I read this.

Husband grabbed remote and turned off progressive. Still not work.

*grabs an elephant gun and points at TV*
*reconsiders and puts it down with a big sigh*

Did you check the component video input on your TV to see if the CC is enabled via the TV setup menu?

On new TVs these days, people often have to turn on CC on each video input rather than set it for all of the inputs.

Ocie Denver · 12-07-2009, 12:13 PM

My Playstation 2 slimline can shows the CC or subtitles via component cables; however, television does the works on CC while the PS2 do subtitles by my choice. My television is Panasonic flat-screen, not HDTV.

Dory · 12-08-2009, 08:06 AM

No, but I heard about that. This is Season 7 of West Wing that I own.

Dory · 12-08-2009, 08:09 AM

That's very good to know because I was thinking about getting my son Xbox 360 for Christmas and also using as a DVD player. I think you can stream your Netflix to Xbox 360 too but it won't help us until Netflix pulls their heads out of their butts and captions their streaming movies!

Dory · 12-08-2009, 08:15 AM

This Vizio has just the one place to turn on CC for components and then also for Digital TV. I have both set to on and also both analog and digital CC set to on. Still no captions. DVD player doesn't even have a CC setting at all, just SDH. I should have researched better before I bought this DVD player. I just figured, hey, it's a Sony, never had CC trouble with their products before.

**Bottesini** · 12-08-2009, 08:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dory

This Vizio has just the one place to turn on CC for components and then also for Digital TV. I have both set to on and also both analog and digital CC set to on. Still no captions. DVD player doesn't even have a CC setting at all, just SDH. I should have researched better before I bought this DVD player. I just figured, hey, it's a Sony, never had CC trouble with their products before.

What is wrong with SDH? It is for deaf and hoh and it works well. Or do the videos you want to see not have it?

**Banjo** · 12-08-2009, 10:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dory

This Vizio has just the one place to turn on CC for components and then also for Digital TV. I have both set to on and also both analog and digital CC set to on. Still no captions. DVD player doesn't even have a CC setting at all, just SDH. I should have researched better before I bought this DVD player. I just figured, hey, it's a Sony, never had CC trouble with their products before.

Did you go into the menu setup, not the DVD menu for the DVD player?

Dory · 12-08-2009, 05:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bottesini

What is wrong with SDH? It is for deaf and hoh and it works well. Or do the videos you want to see not have it?

There was a setting on there to have it automatically show SDH if available, instead of hitting subtitle button or go into DVD menu every time.

Dory · 12-08-2009, 05:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Banjo

Did you go into the menu setup, not the DVD menu for the DVD player?

Yep. Too bad you guys can't just come on over and fix it for me. Party at Dory's!

**Bottesini** · 12-08-2009, 05:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dory

There was a setting on there to have it automatically show SDH if available, instead of hitting subtitle button or go into DVD menu every time.

So did you set it?

Deaf Smith · 12-08-2009, 10:34 PM

This is one frustration I have with technology moving on and leaving us in the dust. Closed Captions I think, do not transmit over a component or HDMI cable to a tv from a DVD player. I have experienced trying to watch DVDs that are cc-only and having to use my old Composite(yellow) cable to watch the DVD.
Try Composite cables, the yellow one. Blue, Red, Green is Component, which is HD. Composite/yellow isn't HD, which is a drawback and frustration of mine.

purplecatty · 12-09-2009, 12:04 AM

Even though I don't have HDTV yet but will have it soon as my basement is done. Planned to get 55" to 60" HDTV for it. Personally, from my experience, sometime DVD movies won't show CC instead of Subtitle. In few case, in DVD Movie menu, you might see "English -- Closed Captioned". I got it working. Some DVD movies won't show CC at all because it's not encoded for CC except Subtitles.

Why don't you try other DVD movies that have CC ready and test it. If it show CC on your Vizio, Then it's the blame to DVD movie, not DVD player. DVD player should be able to transmit encoded CC signal as long as DVD movie have it.

Also you might want to swap out to another good known working DVD player that CC works well. Test it. If it works fine on other DVD then it means that your DVD player is funky. My experience that everytime I watched movie with CC on, It dropped out CC in the middle of the movie. I had to "rewind" and play again and finally it stayed on. Sometime it was garbled after that. I decide to swap out DVD player (I have old Toshiba DVD player and PS2 gaming console as DVD player) Both DVD players have odd "personalty". PS2 did play movie well w/ CC all the way to end. Sometime It showed same symptoms like first DVD player. It means that DVD movie is screwed. You can return it to Movie rental place and swap it if they have another one.

So Try it.

Catty

PowerWCRulez · 12-09-2009, 11:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Foxrac

I had tried to watch DVD movies on Xbox 360 with component cable and CC won't show from TV and Xbox 360 don't have option to turn CC on.

Component not working for CC.. get the RCA jacks (Red/white/yellow that would show CC on it.)

I have 4 buttons switcher box for VP/XB360/TV(Cable/VCR)/DVD uses RCA jacks goes to back of tv. It's Radio Shack Video switcher box.

12-06-2009, 12:09 AM	#1 (permalink)
Dory Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Cedar Rapids IA Posts: 18 Blog Entries: 1	Vizio won't show DVD CC; why?! I have a Vizio 50" LCD connected to a Sony DVD player via component (not HDMI). It will not show CC on my DVDs. I don't mean subtitles; Deaf folk know there is big difference between CC and subtitles, right?! I have been through the Vizio manual and I can't figure out how to turn on CC for DVDs. It shows CC great on all my DTV channels. I went through the Sony manual and no luck there, either. I know the CC is on the DVD because the CC shows up on old TV. But not on my new TV! So frustrating that CC works on my old crappy TV but not on the TV I spent $1800 on!

12-06-2009, 01:06 AM	#2 (permalink)
The Highlander Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 6,457	Another Iowa. No wonder. Just go to sony dvd player's setup without a disc and you will see CC in there to enable. __________________ "There are a lot of people that don’t like this software. It is because they don’t understand how to use the software and don’t realize it’s potential."

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Lighthouse77 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 4,167	Highlander, you are insulting. I hope you edit your post before Dory sees it. __________________ Good thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

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Ocie Denver Registered User Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: USS Iowa - Akira class starship - Federation space Posts: 913	Dory, have you turn on the subtitles in DVD's main menu? Or look up for CC option in DVD player's setup menu? __________________

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Dory Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Cedar Rapids IA Posts: 18 Blog Entries: 1	I took out all DVDs and got my manuals back out for both DVD and TV. Worked with both TV menu and DVD menu for about an hour each and still have no luck. I think it's DVD player's fault. TV: I have menu set to automatically have CC on for both analog and digital. DVD player: I found no CC settings *whatsoever*. Not even in the index at the end of the manual! Only options for subtitles. Still have no captions from this closed captioned DVD. The back of the box says it's CC and the CC shows up on the old TV/DVD so it's not the DVD's fault. I'm so frustrated because I am so NOT dumb about technological things (that's not a zing at you, Highlander, we're ok!) and in fact, I'm a pretty big gadget queen. But I've had this set up for a couple years and have never been able to figure it out. I have googled the shit out of it. I wish I had done better research before I bought these TV and DVD player, but I've never had trouble with Sony before so didn't think CC would be a problem with this player. Thanks for all your help anyway, guys! My first "real" post in these forums and I'm really happy with the community you guys have here! Dory __________________ Can't Remember Diddly! • Etsy • Facebook • flickr • Google • Twitter • YouTube

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12-06-2009, 11:22 AM	#5 (permalink)
Steel X Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: The Carolinas/Rochester, NY. Posts: 13,837	Are you using regular AV cables or component cables? If using component cables, CC won't work that way.

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Dory Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Cedar Rapids IA Posts: 18 Blog Entries: 1	Thanks, everyone! I'm'a take all the discs out and check the DVD settings. P.S. At first I thought, hey Iowa ppl aren't dumb, but then I see you're kidding

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Banjo Expelled Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 11,650	Check the DVD player to see if the progressive mode is enabled, if it is. Disable it or switch it to interlaced mode.

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Dory Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Cedar Rapids IA Posts: 18 Blog Entries: 1	I got all kinds of stoked when I read this. Husband grabbed remote and turned off progressive. Still not work. grabs an elephant gun and points at TV reconsiders and puts it down with a big sigh __________________ Can't Remember Diddly! • Etsy • Facebook • flickr • Google • Twitter • YouTube

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Lighthouse77 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 4,167	are you watching any rentals? Like "UP" if so, they have taken out the special bonuses for rental and subtitles have been removed because of that. Some DVD movies don't have CC but have subtitles. __________________ Good thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

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Foxrac Need Stormtroopers? Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Zaphias Posts: 33,215	I had tried to watch DVD movies on Xbox 360 with component cable and CC won't show from TV and Xbox 360 don't have option to turn CC on. __________________ In Moto We Trust

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Ocie Denver Registered User Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: USS Iowa - Akira class starship - Federation space Posts: 913	My Playstation 2 slimline can shows the CC or subtitles via component cables; however, television does the works on CC while the PS2 do subtitles by my choice. My television is Panasonic flat-screen, not HDTV. __________________

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Dory Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Cedar Rapids IA Posts: 18 Blog Entries: 1	No, but I heard about that. This is Season 7 of West Wing that I own. __________________ Can't Remember Diddly! • Etsy • Facebook • flickr • Google • Twitter • YouTube

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Dory Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Cedar Rapids IA Posts: 18 Blog Entries: 1	That's very good to know because I was thinking about getting my son Xbox 360 for Christmas and also using as a DVD player. I think you can stream your Netflix to Xbox 360 too but it won't help us until Netflix pulls their heads out of their butts and captions their streaming movies! __________________ Can't Remember Diddly! • Etsy • Facebook • flickr • Google • Twitter • YouTube

12-08-2009, 08:15 AM	#22 (permalink)
Dory Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Cedar Rapids IA Posts: 18 Blog Entries: 1	This Vizio has just the one place to turn on CC for components and then also for Digital TV. I have both set to on and also both analog and digital CC set to on. Still no captions. DVD player doesn't even have a CC setting at all, just SDH. I should have researched better before I bought this DVD player. I just figured, hey, it's a Sony, never had CC trouble with their products before. __________________ Can't Remember Diddly! • Etsy • Facebook • flickr • Google • Twitter • YouTube

12-08-2009, 10:34 PM	#28 (permalink)
Deaf Smith Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 29	This is one frustration I have with technology moving on and leaving us in the dust. Closed Captions I think, do not transmit over a component or HDMI cable to a tv from a DVD player. I have experienced trying to watch DVDs that are cc-only and having to use my old Composite(yellow) cable to watch the DVD. Try Composite cables, the yellow one. Blue, Red, Green is Component, which is HD. Composite/yellow isn't HD, which is a drawback and frustration of mine. Last edited by Deaf Smith; 12-09-2009 at 12:13 AM.

12-09-2009, 12:04 AM	#29 (permalink)
purplecatty Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Center of the USA Posts: 3,620	Even though I don't have HDTV yet but will have it soon as my basement is done. Planned to get 55" to 60" HDTV for it. Personally, from my experience, sometime DVD movies won't show CC instead of Subtitle. In few case, in DVD Movie menu, you might see "English -- Closed Captioned". I got it working. Some DVD movies won't show CC at all because it's not encoded for CC except Subtitles. Why don't you try other DVD movies that have CC ready and test it. If it show CC on your Vizio, Then it's the blame to DVD movie, not DVD player. DVD player should be able to transmit encoded CC signal as long as DVD movie have it. Also you might want to swap out to another good known working DVD player that CC works well. Test it. If it works fine on other DVD then it means that your DVD player is funky. My experience that everytime I watched movie with CC on, It dropped out CC in the middle of the movie. I had to "rewind" and play again and finally it stayed on. Sometime it was garbled after that. I decide to swap out DVD player (I have old Toshiba DVD player and PS2 gaming console as DVD player) Both DVD players have odd "personalty". PS2 did play movie well w/ CC all the way to end. Sometime It showed same symptoms like first DVD player. It means that DVD movie is screwed. You can return it to Movie rental place and swap it if they have another one. So Try it. Catty

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