FUNAI 6513DA User Manual

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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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