RCA HD56W151 manual Screen Format, Digital Captions, Caption Priority, Caption Style

Using the TV’s Menu System

	Main Menu Preferences Closed Captioning
0 Go Back	Service 1	You can select a mode or source of
1 Caption Display	Service 2	closed captions for digital-TV
2 Analog Captions		programs.
	Service 3	If the "Caption Priority" feature is set
3 Digital Captions	Service 4
		to "Use the digital captions", then the
4 Caption Priority	Service 5	digital caption mode you select is
		used for digital-TV programs.

Service 6 5 Caption Style

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. The service modes support MPEG-2 based transport sources such as DTVLink.

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. Never use analog captions.

Use the analog captions. Never use digital captions.

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.

If you select analog on digital captions and they are available for a digital TV program, the CC icon in the banner lights. The captions are displayed if turned on in Caption Display.

0 Go Back

1 Caption Display

2 Analog Captions

3 Digital Captions

4 Caption Priority

5 CaptionCaption StyleStyle

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
	Caption Font
Font 1
	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 options: Solid, Transparent, Translucent, and Flashing. Solid is the default setting.

Caption Opacity allows you to change the see-through options: Solid,

Transparent, Translucent, and Flashing.

0 Go Back

1 Closed Captioning

2 Screen Format

Main Menu Preferences

Normal A picture with a 4:3 aspect-ratio

can be displayed on a 16:9 wide-screen TV in one of three ways.

Stretch

Screen Format

The Screen Format feature allows you to change how the image of a 4:3 picture is displayed on your 16:9 screen. The options are Normal, Zoom or Stretch. If

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4 Color Scheme

5Translucency

6 Menu Language

7 Button Lighting

8 Digital Channel Info

Zoom

Screen Format can also be changed from the remote or keyboard with the FORMAT key.

The Screen Format of some signal sources can't be changed.

your TV receives an image with a 4:3 aspect ratio, the image can be displayed in one of three ways:

Select Normal for 4:3 images to retain their width and height. Side panels will appear at the left and right sides.

Normal The image of a 4:3 video signal is centered with gray bars on the right and left sides of the screen.

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