Emerson EWC19DA TV DVD Combo User Manual


 
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Closed Caption Problem Possible Remedy
My TV is showing captions You are watching a live broadcast and spelling errors made by the
that are misspelled. closed captioning production company may pass through uncorrected.
A prerecorded program will not show any misspelled words because
of the normal time available for editing the captions.
My TV will not show the text Captions that are delayed a few seconds behind the actual dialogue
in its entirety or there is a delay of are common for live broadcast. Most captioning production companies
what is being said. can display a dialogue to a maximum of 220 words per minute. If a
dialogue exceeds that rate, selective editing is used to insure that the
captions remain up-to-date with the current TV screen dialogue.
My captions are scrambled with Interference caused by building, power lines, thunderstorms, etc.
white boxes on the TV screen. may cause scrambled or incomplete captions to appear.
My program guide listed a TV show
Broadcasters may at times use a time compression process to the
as being closed captioned but none actual program so that additional advertising time can be given.
of the captions were displayed. Since the decoder cannot read the compressed information,
captions will be lost.
My TV screen shows a black box You are in the TEXT mode. Select CAPTION mode or CAPTION
on certain channels. [OFF].
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