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Blue Ray players can indeed play closed captions. ...

2010-02-11T07:33:22.248-05:00

Blue Ray players can indeed play closed captions. Here is how:

Close captions from DVDs on a Blue Ray player:

Step by step:
1. If your player and TV are linked so that some of the functions on one are replicated on another (e.g. “Simplex” on LG equipment), turn that off via the menus on the TV. Once you do this, the setting is sticky and will remain that way unless you reset it.
2. Install a “composite” cable between your Blue Ray play and your TV. These are the tri-head RCA-type cables, with one head colored yellow (this is the video signal), one white and one red (those are the audio signals). Just match the colors on the cable at both ends.
3. Using the TV remote, go to its menu page, go to inputs, and select AV1 (or whatever input on the TV you used to connect to the composite cable), and press “return” or “enter” on the remote.
4. Using the remote for the Blue ray player, go to its “home” or whatever button turns on the menus, and find the “captions” option and turn it to “CC1” which is the stream where all U.S.-based close caption information is located. Note: once you do this the first time, the TV will remember this setting and you will be able to skip this step.
5. Play! And you will see the close captions at the bottom of your screen.
Note:
A. Your TV normally tries to set up the best connection to you Blue ray player, so assuming that you also have an HDMI cable attached, the TV will try to grab that one automatically each time you turn on the TV. So if you watch two DVSs in a row, it is almost certain that your TV will default to the HDMI setting and thus you will have to repeat step 3.
B. The only step you need to repeat each time you play a new DVD is step 3. The others are sticky and will remain set.

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2009-02-17T01:05:10.612-05:00

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Some MGM titles after July 2007 are closed-captioning on main and bonus materials, but bonus materials doesn't have subtitles in other language including English SDH.

This is wrong. Bluray players should be able to do...

2009-01-04T16:06:01.507-05:00

This is wrong. Bluray players should be able to do CC through HDMI. Its a shame that someone has to hook up thier expensive unit with AV cables. Thats crap!

I, too, was very disappointed with the SDH on the ...

2008-12-18T19:12:23.832-05:00

I, too, was very disappointed with the SDH on the "Across the Universe" Blu-ray. I'm hard-of-hearing and rely on captioning 100% of the time. I saw the movie on Showtime or something like that and it was closed captioned, with all the lyrics captioned. I loved the movie so much that I bought the Blu-ray. Imagine my disappointment when most of the songs were subtitled as "[SINGING]"! Um, it's a MUSICAL. I can't believe they think they can get away with an SDH label on something in which half the words aren't subtitled. Why isn't something being done about this? It seems like we're going backwards instead of forwards as the technology advances...

My DVD player does not display Close Captions (CC)...

2008-09-02T20:42:21.608-04:00

My DVD player does not display Close Captions (CC). I have emailed Paramount/CBS several times regarding their TV series DVD releases to change from CC to English subtitles (SDH) but I did not hear back from them. It is rather disappointing. SDH is accessible for everyone else. CC is NOT. Why use CC where SDH can be accessed by everyone????

I think it should also be mentioned that many peop...

2008-07-25T20:25:38.835-04:00

I think it should also be mentioned that many people who are learning english as a second language use closed captions or english subtitles to help them understand the diaglogue in the movie especially when the speech is very quick, jargony or with a heavy accent. A PS3 update would be much appreciated.

What's interesting is my laptop can't display clos...

2008-04-14T17:29:10.987-04:00

What's interesting is my laptop can't display closed captions, the software simply shuts down after a while. I think it's because the video card only has 32MB or KB (I forget which) of memory, maybe it needs more to make the video with CC's run smoother.

Very interesting topic! I've not yet even watched ...

2008-04-13T13:56:24.386-04:00

Very interesting topic! I've not yet even watched a blu-ray movie, or HDTV, but I recognize the importance of captions. I honestly don't care much for subtitles because they tend to miss too much. With captions one also gets notified of environmental events happening. Although I have a CI, I still rely on captions because background noise/music/people speaking too fast etc sometimes make it hard to follow without them. Even my hearing boyfriend relies on captions as he has bad tinnitus and it simply makes watching movies/tv easier. I hope they come up with solution to this soon.

Seems to be getting worse with HDTV's and no one i...

2008-04-13T13:24:24.057-04:00

Seems to be getting worse with HDTV's and no one is taking responsible for it. FIOS TV service is great but the CC's sucks! it will often flash too quickly to be able to read whole cc. Same thing with Comcast. Seems they aren't really fixing anything because it's still a problem!! No one's being held responsible for it. Not even providing any real solutions.

Why can't ADA follow this?

2008-04-13T11:46:17.521-04:00

Why can't ADA follow this?