Yes, more on captioning

[Chase]

If this is in the wrong place, I hope someone moves it to a better spot.

I had an aftermarket captioning device attached to my television set in 1989. When it worked, it flashed green all capital letters on a white background. Our next TV set included the closed-captions feature. We only purchased or rented VHS movies having the little TV set symbol with the spike like from speech bubbles in cartoons – or the little TV screen with “CC.”

Now captioning is standard in several languages on most TV sets. VHS cassettes are almost as extinct as the 8-track music cassette, but you still have to carefully check DVDs to make sure they have captions of some sort, subtitles in the language we happen to read or still identified by a TV set icon. The latest I see have the initials SDH on the little TV screen.

Captioning is important to us who don’t hear well or who don’t hear at all. I've read here that many hate some captioning and love another. Which do you prefer and why?

 

[Banjo]

If this is in the wrong place, I hope someone moves it to a better spot.

I had an aftermarket captioning device attached to my television set in 1989. When it worked, it flashed green all capital letters on a white background. Our next TV set included the closed-captions feature. We only purchased or rented VHS movies having the little TV set symbol with the spike like from speech bubbles in cartoons – or the little TV screen with “CC.”

Now captioning is standard in several languages on most TV sets. VHS cassettes are almost as extinct as the 8-track music cassette, but you still have to carefully check DVDs to make sure they have captions of some sort, subtitles in the language we happen to read or still identified by a TV set icon. The latest I see have the initials SDH on the little TV screen.

Captioning is important to us who don’t hear well or who don’t hear at all. I've read here that many hate some captioning and love another. Which do you prefer and why?

Personally, I prefer SDH as it's guaranteed to be accessible at all times, no matter what. With analog, digital and other types of CC on DTV, HDTV and other types; you are more than likely to run into problems. With SDH, your mind is at peace because it's from your DVD, Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD players and not the TV.