RCA HDTV manual Digital Captions, Caption Priority, Caption Style

Using the TV’s Menu System

0 Go Back

1 Caption Display

2 Analog Captions

3 Digital Captions

4 Caption Priority

5 Caption Style

Main Menu Preferences Closed Captioning

Service 1	You can select a mode or source of
Service 2	closed captions for digital-TV
	programs.
Service 3	If the "Caption Priority" feature is set
Service 4
	to "Use the digital captions", then the
Service 5	digital caption mode you select is
	used for digital-TV programs.
Service 6
	Note: Services 1 and 2 usually have
	the primary and secondary language
	captions for an area, respectively.

Press 5 or 6 to point to an option, then press OK to select it. Press 3to return to the menu.

Digital Captions

You can select a closed caption, service mode (1-6) for digital channels.

Service 1 and Service 2 are the primary and secondary languages, respectively.

Service 3 and Service 4, 5, 6 are additional caption sources that may be available. Specific label names may be displayed (e.g., Spanish) instead of a generic label (e.g., Service 1), if available.

0 Go Back

1 Caption Display

2 Analog Captions

3 Digital Captions

4 Caption Priority

5 Caption Style

Main Menu Preferences Closed Captioning

If a digital TV program has both analog and digital captions:

Use the digital captions if available, otherwise use analog.

Use the analog captions at all times.

A digital TV program may include analog-TV captions and digital-TV captions, either one of the two, or neither of the two. The setting above will determine which type of captions the TV will display.

Analog captions will be used more often in the early years of digital TV broadcasting. Digital captions are more advanced and have new capabilities.

Press 5 or 6 to point to an option, then press OK to select it. Press 3to return to the menu.

Caption Priority

You can choose whether the TV uses digital or analog captions for digital TV programs that have both or either. The captions are displayed if turned on in Caption Display.

	Main Menu Preferences Closed Captioning
0 Go Back	When available digital captions can be displayed using:
1 Caption Display		Your custom settings below.
2 Analog Captions		The caption provider's default settings.
3 Digital Captions			Caption Size
4 Caption Priority		Standard
		Font 1	Caption Font	Aa Bb Cc
5 Caption Style			Caption Color
		Magenta
			Background Color
		Yellow
			Background Opacity
		Transparent
			Caption Opacity
		Translucent

Press OK to select one of the three Caption sizes. Press3to return to the menu.

Caption Style

Customize closed captioning for the digital captions by choosing the settings for the following options:

Caption Size is the font size (Standard, Large, Small) of the text characters.

Caption Font is a complete assortment of letters, numbers, punctuation marks, etc. of a given font design. You have eight fonts with varying styles of spacing from which to choose.

Note: A preview graphic of the caption font appears on the right of the screen.

Caption Color allows you to choose the font color: White, Black, Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Magenta, and Cyan.

Background Color allows you to choose the background color: White, Black, Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Magenta, and Cyan.

Background Opacity allows you to change the see-through background options: Solid, Transparent, Translucent, and Flashing.

Caption Opacity allows you to change the see-through caption options: Solid, Transparent, Translucent, and Flashing.

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