[Milominderbinder2]

Please take the very unscientific poll...

Did Release Candidate 0x115 Fix Your Closed Caption Problems?

At least for me, Closed Captioning works now after 0x115:
+ The gibberish extended characters like "£%§" are gone.
+ The words aren't cut in half.
+ The text stays in the area it is supposed to be.

EDIT:
Try this experiment. Record an OTA SD and HD feed of the same show. While it is live, watch the SD local channel live on your TV and note any CC isssues. Then go back and compare to the OTA HD and Sat HD.

Is your Closed Captioning OK now? If not, please explain.

Thanks,

- Craig

 

[Earl Bonovich]

Considering 0x115 didn't include any signficant updates for CC..
You shouldn't see much of difference over 0x10b

 

[Milominderbinder2]

Considering 0x115 didn't include any signficant updates for CC..
You shouldn't see much of difference over 0x10b

CC never worked right on the HR20 but always did on the TiVo and direct feed to the TV. I was trying to use CC just before the reset last night to 0x115. They were messed up on SD, HD, and OTA in all different ways.

I happened to still have CC on when the reset was over and I WAS CURED!

Still tonight. Bingo. CC works.

Do your Closed Captions work OK on your systems?

- Craig

 

[Earl Bonovich]

Do your Closed Captions work OK on your systems?

- Craig

I only turn on CC to test it when people ask me too... or we are having a party.... So i really don't have a good baring on how well my CC works or not... as I just don't use it enough.

 

[Milominderbinder2]

Is there anyone still having CC issues?

- Craig

 

[Rpbertxyz]

Is there anyone still having CC issues?

- Craig

I've noticed that if I push the info button the CC will go to the top, hit it again and it will go to the bottom where it belongs. No big deal, haven't tried the CC on HD or mpeg4 stations yet.

 

[wheelswagz]

Please take the very unscientific poll...

Did Release Candidate 0x115 Fix Your Closed Caption Problems?

At least for me, Closed Captioning works now after 0x115:
+ The gibberish extended characters like "£%§" are gone.
+ The words aren't cut in half.
+ The text stays in the area it is supposed to be.

Is your Closed Captioning OK now? If not, please explain.

Thanks,

- Craig

I was not able to download 0115 since I am out of town on business, but my only problem with the HR20 CC has been trying to get the background opacity to be transparent. I have tried many different settings but no matter what settings I use for the CC background, it always uses that black background. I use transparent background on my H10's and it is just like using DVD subtitles instead of that crappy black box for captions.

Has anyone been able to test transparent background opacity on 0115?

 

[Stuart Sweet]

I had frequent closed captioning issues prior to 0x115. Not to the point of being unusable, but far more garbled text than I came to expect from CC programs.

With release 0x115 the text so far has been clear and as free of errors as I expect.

However, two issues remain:

-Lines do not scroll vertically as they have in the past when I was watching OTA programs directly through my TV. This could be a function of the programs I've been watching, I don't have enough data to be sure.

-I have the font set to "Trade Gothic" but it shows as Courier. No big deal.

 

[Capmeister]

I've noticed that if I push the info button the CC will go to the top, hit it again and it will go to the bottom where it belongs. No big deal, haven't tried the CC on HD or mpeg4 stations yet.

I've not tried that. I'll have to.

Most of my CC issues remain. Placement is off. Timing is weird (CC text cascades rather than appearing all at once). It's not worse than the last version, but I've seen no improvement.

 

[Doug Brott]

Timing is weird (CC text cascades rather than appearing all at once).

Maybe this is related to the lip-sync issues that people are having on the HD channels ... j/k

 

[BubblePuppy]

I haven't noticed any improvements.
I'm still having problems with CC....pretty much the same stuff,garbled words, cutoff words, lagging behind the vocals, changes from the top of the screen to the bottom.
Also sometimes the HD channel won't have CC but the sd channel or the OTA version will have it. I watched House "HD" this morning and CC was absent.
I watched some of the Wedding Crashers recorded last night on HBOH and the CC is still messed up.

I have native off and am connected to my tv via HDMI

 

[Capmeister]

Heh. No.

This is where--and it's difficult to describe, rather than the text under the person talking appearing two lines at once, first one line appears, than the next line under it. So rather than seeing

This is the way
I want this done.

you see

This is the way

and then a moment later

I want this done

appears under it.

It's awkward and not the way it should work.

 

[richlife]

I don't often use CC, but it's a feature that I would like to see working properly -- it doesn't. I see several major problems (but I really haven't noticed the unprintable characters that MMB2 talks about). (These results are mostly ESPN HD, but are consistent with other stations I looked at (news)).

1 - CC text is collapsed into 3 or sometimes 1 (short) lines at the top left of the screen (ES2H is lower left -- same appearance). USUALLY the first line is ok (unless only 1 line is printing, then it over prints characters without erasing the previous characters -- jumble). The second and third lines are almost always overprinted in jumble mode.

Some channels print "correctly in the upper left, but only two lines with text scrolling off the top.

Once in a while (some commercials -- though most don't have CC), the text will appear properly in the lower left and doesn't overwrite.

Major networks do better, but not consistently. More problems with the D* HD channels.

2 - I have transparent background selected but CC always starts in black background. After some time, it may or may not go to transparent (no changes in controls). This is true for all channels.

3 - None of the other CC settings appear to work (very minimal testing).

Since I don't really use CC, I'm reporting what I tested rather than day-in day-out experience. If I could get transparent, I'd be willing to leave CC on and report broader experience, but the black background is very destructive to enjoying the shows.

 

[kenmoo]

I have made several comments in the Closed Captioning threads in the past and would love to offer some now on any changes with 0x115 but I did not force download Elvis. The HR20 is my first and only DVR and I didn't want to take the risk of losing the functionality I do have most of the time. I'm using a VCR as my backup but only off a SD receiver in the bedroom. I will definitely post my CC observations if and when 0x115 does go National.

 

[BubblePuppy]

I'm comparing the CC with my H20 versuses my HR20. The H20 displays it at the bottom,scrolling across the bottom as it should. The HR20 stacks it.
The H20 seems to be displaying the words properly without any garble unlike the HR20 that still garbles words, cuts off words,overwrites on top of words and is very inconsistent. The H20 CC is working great, it is connected to my 26" Panny HDCRT via component and my HR20 is connected to my Panny 42"Plasma via HDMI.

 

[Capmeister]

Since no release notes for this last version touched on CC I assume there were no (and I see no) changes to CC.

D* has to get this updated and fixed, however. Closed captioning works fine on the HR10 and before I can make the HR20 my main box, it has to work the same.

 

[Milominderbinder2]

So far it appears that 2 of us have our CC fixed and the rest are either not using CC or still have problems. I am happy that I checked with you.

- Craig

 

[Capmeister]

Milo,

Do you not see the timing problem of which I speak?

Just curious.

 

[hasan]

MSNBC SD: Close Captioning is OK

ABC OTA-HD: Boston Legal recorded last night: Perfect...best CC I've see with this box.

ESPN-HD: Commercial, CC Working fine, until chopped last two words at end of commercial. Next Commercial: no CC at all: Regular programming: ABSOLUTE RUBBISH. Bad characters, skipped words...really junkie...unusable.

TNT HD: CC is WAY out in front of the actual lip movements...by at least 3 seconds.

Discovery HD Theater: CC looks good

Conclusion: still some bad problems with CC here. ESPN-HD is unusable, TNT HD being so far out of sync could cause hallucinations!

 

[Milominderbinder2]

Milo,

Do you not see the timing problem of which I speak?

Just curious.

Yes I do have the synch issues as Hasan noted. Yes that is annoying. But up until this week, Closed Captioning was like trying to read cave drawings: sometimes broken up, sometimes extended characters. sometimes words were cut in half. Text bounced from the top to bottom almost randomly.

Now, for the first time CC is excellent on a number of channels and probably the worst on ESPN. The remaining problems are also occurring on the TiVo SD channels. ESPN is just as bad. That tells me that it may no longer be an HR20 problem. It may be with the national feeds D* gets or in how D* handles their signals internally.

Try this experiment. Record an OTA SD and HD feed of the same show. While it is live, watch the SD local channel live on your TV and note any CC issues. Then go back and compare to the OTA HD and Sat HD.

The HR20 used to be a lap back in that race. I have tried this with a number of network series and now the HR20 is pretty close. I had a similar result with Boston Legal last night. The HR20 was perfect. The HR20 won.

Live programs like the news are all over the place as always.

What results have you seen? Anyone else want to try this experiment?

- Craig