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TiVo Closed Captioning

I wish TiVo made it possible to turn on Closed Captioned (which would make it have subtitles). I use a TiVo and a Data/Video Projector so I don't have an actual television that I can turn the captioning on. This is annoying in that when I can't hear something clearly (and “rewinding” doesn't help) there's nothing I can do. We really need this as a feature.

There's other reasons to have this:

  • For your little kids to have the text while they watch TV to help with the connections between the audible and written words.
  • Language reinforcement for those with literacy issues. This was just covered by Google with the phrase of (SLS) Same-Language Subtitling (which I've never heard it referred to as that before).
  • And of course one of the main reasons (it's original purpose, I believe) for the Hearing Impaired.
  • Having the TV on when there is company over (which I generally don't do unless there is a holiday themed movie on) to mute it and just have the text. (It always suprises me how many people haven't seen “A Christmas Story”.)

    I can turn it on when watching a DVD but it might still be an issue when using the DVD Player in my TiVo, I may still have to go to the main menu of a movie (I'll have to check that when I get home).

    I'm sure there are some hacks to make this happen on the TiVo but it should easily do it. It really needs it since you can control the speed of the TiVo it can affect when the actual captions appear.

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    Posted by Gary on Thursday at 9:09 PM on December 15, 2005.
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