Hello everyone, I am a new member. I want to clarify something about Passions on Directv. My advise: save your money and time! If you are a deaf fan of Passions and have depended on the Closed Captioning all these years as I have, IT IS NOT CLOSED CAPTIONED ON DIRECTV!!
I have watched Passions from the very first episode, you can consider me one of the biggest fans. I have never missed an episode. I love the show. So when this Directv advertising started I was very upset that NBC was dropping it and being taken over by DTV. We have had our local cable service for over 18 years and were very pleased with it and the idea of changing was not good. But, as I said, I am one of the biggest fans and wanted to continue to watch it. Before we made the move I had to ask them one very important question: "I am a Passions fan and I am considering changing to DTV so I can continue to watch it but as a deaf person I must ask this question first, will Passions still be Closed Captioned as it has been on NBC all these years." The response was, "YES, it will still be Closed Captioned as it always has been. That answer determined the move, if it was "no" of course we would not have changed. So we made the move, paid all that money to connect to DTV, the installers cut up all our existing cable wires to connect to the dish, and we discontinued our cable service. All for nothing!! No captioning. Emails to them only generates "beat around the bush" responses.
I feel like I have been "had", I was lied to. Now I am stuck with DTV and cannot watch Passions. I am very mad.
Passions is on The 101 channel, which is a DTV channel. And since the network, or whoever, is the one who sponsors the captioning, pays for it, let me tell you, DTV does not caption one single thing of their own. The hearing impaired community is totally shut out. All of us hearing impaired Passions fans are now shut out, we can no longer watch Passions. That tells me that DTV doesn't care on iota about the deaf community.
But don't get me wrong, everything that has captioning shows up on DTV. Its just that since Passions is produced now by DTV, they are not captioning it. All the other shows are captioned by the networks they are on, not by DTV.
So I just wanted to let anyone who is considering signing up for DTV to watch Passions that it is not Closed Captioned.