Emerson EWC19DA 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.
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closed captioning production company may pass through uncorrected.
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A prerecorded program will not show any misspelled words because
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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
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are common for live broadcast. Most captioning production companies
what is being said.
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can display a dialogue to a maximum of 220 words per minute. If a
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dialogue exceeds that rate, selective editing is used to insure that the
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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.
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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
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actual program so that additional advertising time can be given.
of the captions were displayed.
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Since the decoder cannot read the compressed information,
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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.
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[OFF].
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