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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | I am updating A Beautiful Mind UPC 025192-145025. I ticked the closed caption box and received several no votes saying that this feature is unavailable. I pulled out the DVD again and when I go to "Languages" this is what I see:
"Captions & Subtitles"
Captioned for the hearing Subtitles
English Espanol
None
So does this DVD have Closed Captions or not?
Edit: Please note that the English is directly under the section listed as Captioned and that Espanol and None are listed directly under Subtitles. Since special equipment is needed to read CC how are contributors to know if is available or not?
I have just installed PowereDVD but I have to learn how to use it. | | | | Last edited: by Kathy |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Closed Captioning is NOT an ordinary Subtitle. It takes a special decoder box, circuitry or software to see, It was created back in the 70's by the Closed Captioning Institue in Los Angeles and to utilize it the Distributor MUST pay a licensing fee to the CCI to use and dsiplay the Logo. Universal has never done this as you can readily tell by the lack of the logo., Kathy.
Simple procedure here, A Beautiful Mind was released YEARS ago,m like 2001 or 2002, do you really think if it had CC it would not have already been checked. instead we get users who check it and get it past the screeners and then it has to be fixed AGAIN and again and still and some more.
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,879 |
| | Posted: | | | | Easy to check. If "closed captioned" appears as a selectable option in your program (like PowerDVD or such) then it's there. However, it might also have a subtitle track for the hearing impaired. Again, easy to check in a program to see what subtitles are listed. Often (but not always) in these cases there will be two separate English subtitle tracks. | | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | But English SDH are NOT CC.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| Registered: October 6, 2008 | | Posts: 1,932 |
| | Posted: | | | | There should be an icon that represents subtitles on your PowerDVD interface. If you click it, you'll get a menu that lists the available subtitles and closed captions. |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 |  Posts: 1,982 |
| | Posted: | | | | Kathy since it's always better with an image. If you use Power DVD it's easy to see if the subtitle track is in CC format or the SDH one. If the dvd had a CC option the line will be written in black in the zone I've circled. If not it will be grey like actually in the image  PS : My Power DVD is of course in french, but the english version certainly use the same order. |
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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thank you everyone! |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kathy: Quote:
Edit: Please note that the English is directly under the section listed as Captioned and that Espanol and None are listed directly under Subtitles. Since special equipment is needed to read CC how are contributors to know if is available or not?
I have just installed PowereDVD but I have to learn how to use it. Special equipment is not needed. Every TV set sold in the US can decode CC. The best way to see if a DVD has them, is to put it in your DVD player, hooked to your TV with a standard cable, and hit the CC button on your remote. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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| Registered: May 9, 2008 | | Posts: 467 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
Special equipment is not needed. Every TV set sold in the US can decode CC. Small nit pick: It's every TV 13 inch or larger made since mid 1993 I think. While I think that almost no one here really used an older TV you never know  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | Captions for the hearing impaired (SDH) differ from standard captions in that they include include sounds (e.g., "telephone rings" or "footsteps") for the benefit of the hearing impaired viewer. They include many of the same elemenents as Closed Captions, but are actually subtitles.
Closed Captions are signals decoded in the television while SDH subtitles are decoded in the DVD player. | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting tkinnen: Quote:
Small nit pick: It's every TV 13 inch or larger made since mid 1993 I think. While I think that almost no one here really used an older TV you never know Small, but good. I had forgotten about the size and date. Thanks.  | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
Quoting Kathy:
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Edit: Please note that the English is directly under the section listed as Captioned and that Espanol and None are listed directly under Subtitles. Since special equipment is needed to read CC how are contributors to know if is available or not?
I have just installed PowereDVD but I have to learn how to use it.
Special equipment is not needed. Every TV set sold in the US can decode CC. The best way to see if a DVD has them, is to put it in your DVD player, hooked to your TV with a standard cable, and hit the CC button on your remote. I don't have cable or use a remote.  But knowing about the logo and using PowerDVD I should be okay for next time. Thanks again everybody for your help. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
Special equipment is not needed. Every TV set sold in the US can decode CC. The best way to see if a DVD has them, is to put it in your DVD player, hooked to your TV with a standard cable, and hit the CC button on your remote. Newer TV sets sold can decode CC, but older TV sets can't decode or display CC without a special set-top decoder box, since they lack the necessary integrated decoder circuitry. | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | And as I recall, it's not supported by HDTV. | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Not if you use an HDMI cable...if you use a standard cable, or component, I think it still is. Kinda defeats the purpose of HD though. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 1,982 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Katatonia: Quote:
Newer TV sets sold can decode CC,.... And some not so old TV like mine (a 1997 Samsung model) doesn't decode all the CC signal. Happen quite often with the dvd released by Anchor Bay. That's why I prefer my computer to watch my film... |
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