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Article #14950CC decoding TVs
From: Coyt D Watters
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:47
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:47
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Sears is selling a Zenith 25" (maybe 27") television with built in Closed Caption Decoding now. They're obviously using the character set used by the on-screen adjustment software, but I noticed one thing I had not seen with the outboard "BOX" decoder... The captioning was in different colors. In _Return of the Jedi_, offscreen voices' text would have a different background from the normal captioning. The captioner must've had fun with this one... [Speaking Huttonese] - Jabba the Hutt [bleep][beep][whistle] - R2D2 [roar] - Chewbacca I also saw the color change during commercials. BTW: I believe this set ran about $449.99, right in the middle of sets in the same size range. I'll try to get a Zenith/Sears model number. -Coyt
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cwatters From: cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Coyt D Watters) Subject: CC decoding TVs Message-ID: <1992Dec14.174730.4302@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: photon.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Distribution: usa Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:47:30 GMT Lines: 22