RCA scenium manual Digital Captions, Caption Priority, Caption Style, Using the TV’s Menu System

Using the TV’s Menu System

•CC1 and Text 1 are the primary caption and text services. The captioning or text is displayed in the same language as the program’s dialog.

•CC3 and Text 3 serve as the preferred data channels. The captioning or text is often a secondary language translation, simplified English, or displayed at a slower rate.

•CC2 and CC4 and Text 2 and Text 4 are rarely available and broadcasters use them only in special conditions, such as when CC1 and CC3 are not available, or Text1 and Text3 are not available.

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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 ￿ or ￿ to point to an option, then press OK to select it. Press ￿to 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.

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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 ￿ or ￿ to point to an option, then press OK to select it. Press ￿to 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.

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1 Caption Display

2 Analog Captions

3 Digital Captions

4 Caption Priority

5 Caption Style

Main Menu Preferences Closed Captioning

When available digital captions can be displayed using:

Your custom settings below.

The caption provider's default settings.

Standard	Caption Size
Font 1	Caption Font	Aa Bb Cc
	Caption Color
Magenta
	Background Color
Yellow
	Background Opacity
Transparent
	Caption Opacity
Translucent

Press OK to select one of the three Caption sizes. Press￿to 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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