FUNAI 6513DA owner manual Closed Caption Problem Possible Remedy

Closed Caption Problem

Possible Remedy

My TV is showing captions

• You are watching a live broadcast and spelling errors made by the

that are misspelled.

• closed captioning production company may pass through uncorrected.

• A prerecorded program will not show any misspelled words because

• of the normal time available for editing the captions.

My TV will not show the text

• Captions that are delayed a few seconds behind the actual dialogue

in its entirety or there is a delay of

• are common for live broadcast. Most captioning production companies

what is being said.

• can display a dialogue to a maximum of 220 words per minute. If a

• dialogue exceeds that rate, selective editing is used to insure that the

• captions remain up-to-date with the current TV screen dialogue.

My captions are scrambled with

• Interference caused by building, power lines, thunderstorms, etc.

white boxes on the TV screen.

• may cause scrambled or incomplete captions to appear.

My program guide listed a TV show

• Broadcasters may at times use a time compression process to the

as being closed captioned but none

• actual program so that additional advertising time can be given.

of the captions were displayed.

• Since the decoder cannot read the compressed information,

• captions will be lost.

My TV screen shows a black box

• You are in the TEXT mode. Select CAPTION mode or CAPTION

on certain channels.

• [OFF].

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