Closed Captions

[sstv]

Hi All
I have a HR20-100 with OTA and my Closed Captions are all over the screen.
Somrtimes at the top, sometimes at the bottom with no consistency.
I thought captions was supposed to be at the bottom. Anyone else have this problem or is there a way to lock the location ?

SSTV

[joed32]

They are that way for all of us. Broadcasters choice.

[sstv]

Hi All
I dont think its Broadcasters choice. As an example my CC will be at the bottom during a show, then at the top after a commercial. I dont think broadcasters are doing that. If my CC is at the top during a show and I change channels to a show that has CC at the bottom and hit the PREV button back to the first channel, the CC will also be on the bottom.
Why would broadcasters mess with CC in the middle of a show ?
Got to be something else.

sstv

[hiker]

Like joed32 stated. Go to wikipedia and read about CC. Some implementations are sloppy.

[Steve]

Ya. E.g., after commercials, many networks run promos along the bottom of the screen, so they position the CC's at the top so as not to conflict.

And when they're showing the opening credits, which sometimes goes on for minutes, CC's can be anywhere on the screen, to avoid overwriting the show text.

And sometimes they don't move them around when they should... like in Heroes, when Hiro is talking in Japanese and they are displaying subtitles, the CC's often overwrite them, when I wish they wouldn't. /steve

[sstv]

Hi All
OK I concede.
Curse those Broadcasters!!!!!!

SSTV

[LOCODUDE]

Hi All
OK I concede.
Curse those Broadcasters!!!!!!

SSTV

Indeed.... :)

[trainman]

And sometimes they don't move them around when they should... like in Heroes, when Hiro is talking in Japanese and they are displaying subtitles, the CC's often overwrite them, when I wish they wouldn't. /steve

This one I can explain -- captioning is done while other parts of the post-production process are still ongoing, so closed-captioners usually get a tape of the show that isn't "finished" yet. On-screen graphics tend to be one of the last things to be done in post-production. (The solution would be for someone to figure out the exact times the subtitles are going to be appearing, and pass that information along to the captioners, but that level of cooperation between producers and captioners is rare, unfortunately.)