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A whole lot of folks keep forgetting about closed captions on DVDs, and as time has marched on this means they're getting less accessible.
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Quixoticgeek@TechConnectify And this is where everyone outside the US is discovering that closed caption isn't just a US linguistic term for what we call subtitles in the rest of the world...
Great video, as always.
Kim@quixoticgeek @TechConnectify Except for those who were unfortunate enough to rely on such technology in the VHS era. There were about three PAL VCRs that could do it, and at least one of them was SVHS.
@kim @TechConnectify i did find myself wondering if there's a pal Vs ntsc difference in here too ...
@quixoticgeek @TechConnectify There's certainly a teletext vs closed captions difference. If you wanted to record with captions in the UK you either needed enough bandwidth to preserve the teletext stream (iffy, even with SVHS), or a machine that would decode the teletext subtitles and convert them to closed captions.
(Playback would require a CC decoder that would overlay the captions. This was available as a stand-alone unit.)
There's a reason all the deaf people had that Philips VCR.
(Playback would require a CC decoder that would overlay the captions. This was available as a stand-alone unit.)
There's a reason all the deaf people had that Philips VCR.