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Viewing Closed Captions
Your TV decodes and displays the closed captions that are broadcast with certain TV shows.
These captions are usually subtitles for the hearing impaired or foreign-language trans-
lations. All VCRs record the closed caption signal from television programs, so home-record-
ed video tapes also provide closed captions. Most pre-recorded commercial video tapes pro-
vide closed captions as well. Check for the closed caption symbol in your television schedule
and on the tape' s packaging:
1
Press the MENU button to
display the menu.
Press the CH
button
three times to select the
"Function" menu.
Press the VOL+ button.
2
Press the CH
button
twice times to select the
"Caption" menu.
Press the VOL+ button to
open the Caption menu.
3
Press the VOL+ or VOL –
button to turn closed cap-
tioning on/off.
4
Press the CH
button to
highlight "Mode."
Press the VOL – or VOL +
button to select "Caption"
or "Text."
5
Depending on the particular broadcast, it might be necessary to
make changes to "Channels" and "Field":
Use the CH
, CH
, VOL + and VOL - buttons to make the
changes. (Follow the same procedure as in steps 3~4 above.)
Press the MENU button three times to exit.
.
characters sometimes occur during
closed caption transmissions, especial-
ly those of live events. There may be a
small delay before captions appear
when you change channels. These are
not malfunctions of the TV.
appear at the bottom of the screen,
and they usually cover only a small
portion of the picture.
In text mode, information unrelated
to the program, such as news or
weather, is displayed. Text often
covers a large portion of the screen.
display different information: Field 2
carries additional information that
supplements the information in
Field 1. (For example, Channel 1
may have subtitles in English, while
Channel 2 has subtitles in Spanish.)
Misspellings and unusual
In caption mode, captions
Different channels and fields
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