Sears SRCD227 User Manual

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CLOSED CAPTION PROBLEM

POSSIBLE REMEDY

My TV/DVD/VHS is showing

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

captions 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/DVD/VHS will not show

• Captions that are delayed a few seconds behind the actual

the text dialogue

are common for live broadcast. Most captioning production

in its entirety or there is a delay of

companies can display a dialogue to a maximum of 220 words

what is being said.

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 speed

as being closed captioned but none

up the actual program so that additional advertising time can be

of the captions were displayed.

given. Since the decoder cannot read the compressed information,

captions will be lost.

My prerecorded video tape does not • The video tape was either an illegal copy or the tape duplicating
show any captions. The tape box

company accidentally left out the captioning signals during the

mentions it being closed captioned.

copying process.

My TV screen shows a black box

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

on certain channels.

[OFF].

Playback picture is partially noisy.

Adjust tracking control for a better picture using the CHANNEL

K

or

L

button on the TV/DVD/VHS.

No picture but the audio is OK in

Head cleaning may be necessary. Refer to “AUTO HEAD

playback.

CLEANING” on page 53.

No operation by infrared Remote

Make sure the AC cord is connected to an AC outlet.

Control.

Check batteries in remote control.

Video or color fades in and out

You can not copy a copyrighted video tape. You are experiencing

when making a copy of a video tape.

copy guard protection.

PROBLEM

CORRECTIVE ACTION

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