09 February 2005 (second message)
Hi,
Thank you for your reply, Jim. I hope
all is well.
What is Line 21? I do not understand
what that means.
When I turned on the captioning, I had to
choose from CCTV1, CCTV2, CCTV3, CCTV4, Text1, Text2, Text3, Text4 and XDS. What
do they mean? Please note that the captioning turned on only with CCTV1 –
not with any of the others. However, XDS sometimes gave me the title of the
program that was on the air, and how many minutes remained during the show.
Also, many of the recorded shows seem to
have as poor a quality as live shows.
I’m beginning to wonder if the
captioning decoder in my television might be defective.
Finally, who is Joe Clark?
Many thanks again!
Regards,
Gil Shamir
University Legal Services, Inc.
Assistive Technology Program for the District
of Columbia
220 I Street, NE, Suite 130
Washington, DC 20002
Telephone: (202) 547-0198 ext. 121
(voice)
FAX: (202) 547-2662 or (202)
547-2083
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From: Jim Tobias
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Subject: Re: Question about
captioning quality in broadcast as opposed to cable or satellite
I guess I don't see a reason for a
difference in errors. If you're getting the pictures over broadcast, it's
unlikely that you're not getting the characters in line 21.
The biggest difference I'm familiar with
is live shows versus recorded shows. Live shows are understandably worse.
Is Joe Clark on the list?
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Subject: Question about captioning
quality in broadcast as opposed to cable or satellite
09
February 2005
Hi,
I
hope all is well.
I
have a question about caption quality in broadcast as opposed to cable or
satellite.
Within
the last year and
a half or so, I
purchased a television with an internal caption decoder. I recently
turned it on and noticed a very high error rate on the broadcast shows. I do not subscribe to
cable or satellite.
On
a recent trip I
stayed at a hotel and watched the standard hotel channels (e.g., TNT, Lifetime,
and the broadcast networks such as NBC) with the television captions turned on,
and noticed a much lower error rate.
Why
would the error rate be much higher with broadcast as opposed to hotel cable/satellite?
Many
thanks for your consideration of this note, and I look forward to your replies.
Regards,
University
Legal Services, Inc.
Assistive
Technology Program for the
220
I Street, NE,
Telephone:
(202) 547-0198 ext. 121 (voice)
FAX:
(202) 547-2662 or (202) 547-2083
E-mail:
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