Mitsubishi Electronics 246 Series, 148 Series manual Captions Menu, Captions on Analog Channels

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Captions Menu

Captions on Analog Channels

The TV can decode captions from ANT 1/ANT 2 and the VIDEO composite and S-VIDEOjacks. Broadcasters can send either standard closed captions or text service. Stan- dard closed captions follow the dialogue of the program and display in a small section of the screen. Text-service closed captions often contain information such as weather or news and cover a large portion of the screen.

IMPORTANT

•Analog text-service options display a large black or gray box on the screen when no signal is being broadcast.

•The content of captions is determined by the broadcaster. If captions show strange charac- ters, misspellings, or odd grammar, it is not a malfunction of the TV.

•Closed caption signals are not available through HDMI or component jacks. See the menus for these devices for closed-caption decoding.

Captions Menu Options

Captions on Digital Channels

The TV can decode captions from ANT 1/ANT 2 only. Broadcasters can send up to six different captioning selections or can send analog captions that match those sent by the analog station. A TV station may broadcast only one or two types of captions or none at all.

Digital Settings menu. Check the caption test area (upper right) to see how custom settings look.

	Analog	On if Mute	•	On if Mute: Displays analog closed captions signal CC 1
	Captions	CC 1–CC 4		when audio from the TV speakers is muted. When watching
Closed		Text 1–Text 4		TV, press MUTE to turn captions on/off.
		Off	•	CC 1–CC 4: Standard closed-caption signals
Captions
			• Text 1–Text 4: Text-service signals
	Analog	Gray, Black	Selects either a gray or black text background to make analog
	Background		closed captions easier to read.
	Digital	On if Mute	•	On if Mute: Displays digital closed caption signal Caption 1
	Captions	Caption 1–		when audio from the TV speakers is muted. When watching
		Caption 6		TV, press MUTE to turn closed captions on/off.
		Off	•	Caption 1–Caption 6: Caption signals sent by the broad-
				caster
	Font	Default	Default changes settings to those selected by the captions pro-
		Font 1–Font 7	vider, or, if none, to the TV’s own captions defaults. Use Fonts 1
Digital			through 7 to give captions a custom appearance.
Settings	Font Size	Large	Large is the recommended size.

Standard

Small

Font Color	White, Black, Magenta, etc.
Font Opacity	Translucent, Opaque, Flashing,
	Transparent
Background	White, Black, Magenta, etc.
Color
Background	Translucent, Opaque, Flashing,
Opacity	Transparent

Guidelines for setting digital captions:

•A white font on a black translucent background makes an easy-to-read combination.

•Use contrasting colors for captions and background.

•Check readability of captions using the sample text in the upper right corner of the menu.