RCA DTA800B1 user manual Watching non-digital over-the-air TV broadcast

Watching non-digital over-the-air TV broadcast

To continue to view non-digital TV broadcasts, if available, press the BOX on your remote to place the Converter Box in stand-by mode (amber light), then you can tune your TV to any available non-digital channels (refer to your TV controls).

You must have the RF coaxial cable connected to your TV input, in order to watch non-digital TV broadcasts. Note that most non-digital TV broadcasts will cease to be available after Feb 17th 2009.”

Closed captioning on the Converter Box

Closed captions allow people who are deaf or hard of hearing to enjoy TV programming. Captions are also a helpful tool for those learning English or watching TV in a noisy environment.

The Converter Box provides two ways for you to view captions. You should choose one method or the other.

Method 1

First, you can continue receiving standard TV captions (basic white text on a black background) through your analog TV set. The Converter Box will automatically send the closed-captioning information to your television for the TV to decode and display. All you need to do is turn ON the closed captioning function on your TV as you always have (if your TV has this capability, as newer TV sets do.)

Method 2

Alternatively, the Converter Box can be used to decode captions and display them on your TV screen. If you use this method, you will be able to enjoy the enhancements made possible by digital technology.

To use the converter box to display closed captions:

1. Turn OFF your television’s closed-caption decoder.

2. Turn on the Converter Box’s captioning

decoder by pressing the CC button at the lower right-hand side of the remote control.

•When you use the converter box to display closed captions in this way, you can choose di￿erent types (languages) of captions, depending on what information broadcasters are sending.

Advantages of closed captioning on the Converter Box

Using the Converter Box to decode captions gives you more choices and more ￿exibility when viewing captions on digital TV shows. If you choose this method, you can personalize your captions by making the following choices:

•Choose text size for standard, large, and small-sized captions

•Select di￿erent types of fonts

•Choose between eight background colors and foreground colors for the captioning text (white, black, red, green, blue, yellow, magenta, and cyan)

•Make the caption background transparent, translucent, solid, or ￿ashing

•Set edges of font characters with raised edges, depressed edges, uniform edges, left shadow or right shadow

Each of these enhancements to standard digital captions can be accessed from the main menu of the Converter Box by pressing the MENU button. Please refer to the next section “Menu settings” for details.

To use Closed Captioning, please ￿rst try turning ON Closed Captioning feature on your TV (this setting can normally be found in TV’s setup menu). If not satis￿ed with the results, try turning OFF Closed Captioning feature on your TV, and turning ON Closed Captioning feature on your Converter Box.

Tip: DO NOT enable closed captions on both TV and the converter box. Otherwise, both captions will be overlapped.

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