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10-08-2009, 03:09 AM
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Iowa, USA
Hi everyone
I was looking into closed captioning issues with HDMI. Just recently read a customer review on BestBuy about lack of CC in the tv she bought. As we are about to buy our first LCD television set I thought I had better find out more info. I am HOH and wore hearing aids for a little while at school. However it was not a pleasant experience. I had speech therapy when they first discovered my hearing loss at age 4 and it got me up to speed. I never actually wore hearing aids until I began working after my kids all started school. I found my hearing had deteriorated alot since school. My deafness is familial and it is a nerve deafness that degenerates as we get older. My mother, sister and myself are HOH whilst my brother is not. This trait is interspersed throughout the extended family in various ways. We think it is a recessive gene, but have never had it proven. Whilst I am moderately severe now, this will pogress as I get older as it has with my mother who is now classified with zero decibel hearing. Once she puts hearing aids in she is able to hear at 30 percent. Amazing! These new digital hearing aids are a god send. I am originally from New Zealand and emigrated to the USA 10 years ago. Anyhow that's me, sort of! |
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10-08-2009, 10:21 AM
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Hi I am from Iowa too. I have a modern TV but never found and issue with CC>
Maybe someone more technical will come along and tell you what you want to know.
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10-08-2009, 11:24 AM
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That's just the prob. These techies get too technical for me and I get lost in the information. I read your other comment on Iowa and no captioning for adlibbing on the news and the weather. That frustrates me no end that they don't caption the weather. |
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10-08-2009, 11:27 AM
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I always check the weather online. But about your other problem, do you mean you go to "menu" with your remote and you can't get the captions to come on?
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10-08-2009, 11:30 AM
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Iowa here too! I know where Botts is from in Iowa but not sure where you are from. I know here in the Cedar Rapids area KCRG CC everything! Its so great! I wish other stations would follow suit. Welcome to AD!
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10-08-2009, 11:38 AM
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We get captions from our analog TV as well as our Digital Tuner, so that's well covered. |
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10-08-2009, 11:39 AM
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I live in Des Moines. |
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10-08-2009, 11:42 AM
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Besides, do people really need HBO, CNN and all of the other useless channels for $100+ a month? |
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10-08-2009, 11:46 AM
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It was your post I read on another site that got me looking into this issue. As it is we don't have any kind of cable tv, we just watch local channels and I am very happy with that. The only channel I'd really like is HGTV, lol. I am also lucky in that I have my own personal loop system hooked to the Tv and this has helped tremendously. However, life without good captioning would be horrific as there are times that I still need to use them. I remember when we did have cable there were many programs without captioning anyway. |
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10-09-2009, 12:38 PM
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as far as HDMI, it all depends on your settop (the box that have all the cable/satellite channels) provided by your local cable or satellite company. They do provide captioning, but I found them annoying because it is not set just right for my TV (some can be too large, too small, etc..) and more annoyed that i have to keep adjusting til it look right. I wish HDMI put the cc responsibility back to TV instead of settop because tv get it right everytime. But I guess technologies is more complicated than we realize.
other than that, antenna is the best way to go. btw, this is only if you want to watch high definition channels. Standard channels with regular cable wires (not the HDMI wiring) don't really have a problem with closed captioning.
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10-13-2009, 12:09 PM
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Does anyone know what TV's have the decoders specifically? |
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10-13-2009, 11:23 PM
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 to AllDeaf forum. I hope you have fun reading and posting all the threads here. See you around.
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10-16-2009, 12:09 AM
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11-07-2009, 10:08 AM
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If your cable company provided you a High Definition set top, and you set your wiring just for high definition channels, yeah, you will have some problem with close captioning. But standard settop (for people who are not using any HD wiring, and is using standard wiring), the closed captioning is in the TV. Well, that's what I had to deal with. I had standard satellite and I recently switched to cable and they offered free HD ... and since I already have a old HD tv (but a big bunky tv, not the plasma or LCD) , I decided to take a advantage of it and used the HD channels. This is what I experienced. btw, I had to use the HD wiring, and not the HDMI USB port thingy because it couldn't work. My old satellite (DISH network) with standard channels and DVR/settop (the HD channels were not free so we didn't sign up for it) left the closed captioning responsibilities to our TV. They didn't control the close captioning at all. Maybe some HD setbox do allow standard input/output wiring.. if they do, it probably will work for you.
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11-13-2009, 05:30 PM
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Ish from Iowa too!
Welcome to AD. Recently came here myself, but I love the site!!! Anywho, hope you have a great time checking AllDeaf out!
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11-13-2009, 05:37 PM
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Welcome you.
I wouldnt be surprised if any of you Iowans have met me. 
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