Quoting Katatonia:

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I could be wrong here, but I don't think DVD players (PAL format) sold in Europe/Australia can even decode a CC signal from a disc since it's purely an NTSC signal.

Do you mean PAL players playing NTSC material? Because obviously PAL material won't have CC.

Well, if the player converts the signal to PAL (or usually PAL60), then the CC information is lost, I suppose, because it isn't part of the PAL signal. If it transmits the NTSC signal unchanged, then the CC info should be included. European TV sets can nowadays usually accept NTSC material, but they do not have CC decoders, so they cannot show CC text.

In the old Laserdisc days a lot of people here bought external CC decoders, because CC texting was the only subtitling available for Laserdisc. I guess you could still use them if you really wanted to watch CC, but why would you unless a disc had only CC and no subtitling? I guess there are such titles, but they can't be very common, so the demand for external CC decoders must be minimal.

So, the actual decoding of the CC signal is - as far as I know - never done by the player, but by the TV set or by an external decoder.