Features preferences, Digital caption service

Note:The captions do not always use correct spelling and grammar. Not all TV programs and product commercials are made for broadcast with Closed Caption informations included. Refer to your area’s TV program listings for the TV channels and times of Closed Caption shows. The captioned programs are usually noted in the TV listings with service marks such as ‘CC’.

Features preferences

Caption service

This allows you to select the Closed Captions service levels of analog broadcasting to be displayed.

Closed Captioning allows you to read the voice content of television programs on the TV screen. Designed to help the hearing impaired, this feature uses on-screen ‘text boxes’ to show dialogue and conversations while the TV program is in progress. Captions will appear on the screen during captioned broadcasts.

&Select Captions service.

éPress the cursor right.

“Select the desired Caption service:

•CC 1, 2, 3 or 4

Dialogue (and descriptions) for the action on the captioned TV program shows on screen.

Usually CC 1 is the most used. CC 2 may be used for alternate languages if they are being transmitted.

•T 1, 2, 3 or 4

Often used for channel guide, schedules, bulletin board information for Closed Captions programs, news, weather informations or stock market reports.

Not all Caption services are necessarily being used by a TV channel during the transmission of a Closed Caption program.

‘See Closed Caption in the TV, Features menu, see p. 22, to turn the Caption service On or Off.

Note:This television provides display of television closed captioning conforming with the EIA-608 standard and in accordance with Sections 15.119 of the FCC rules.

Digital caption service

This allows you to configure the way you choose to view the digital captioning.

Select one of the digital service channels made available by the caption provider.

There are 6 standard services. Service 1 is designated as the Primary Caption Service.This service contains the verbatim, or near-verbatim captions for the primary language being spoken in the accompanying program audio.

Service 2 is designated as the Secondary Language Service.This service contains captions in a secondary language which are translations of the captions in the primary Caption Service.The other service subchannels are not pre-assigned. It is up to the discretion of the individual caption provider to utilize the remaining service channels.