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I use Close Captioning on my television since I am considered hard of hearing, and I'm just wondering if anyone else uses it. If you do, is your CC keeping up with what's going on in the show? For some reason for the past two days, it either doesn't work or is five seconds to thirty seconds behind the dialogue.

Anyone else who uses CC have this problem?

I hate CC for tv because it's usually poorly done and behind, but I always use captions for movies when available...I started doing it so I could occasionally watch tv/movies when the kids were awake. They make so much noise that it would be silly to turn the volume up enough to overpower them, so I'd just 'read'. Then I got used to it, and I now get annoyed if there are no captions.

it's always on at the gym, and tends to lag by about 5 seconds. Spelling is horrible too.

it's always on at the gym, and tends to lag by about 5 seconds. Spelling is horrible too.

That's because it's done by deaf people with carpal tunnel syndrome.

Also, you should post pics of you all sweaty at the gym.

That's because it's done by deaf people with carpal tunnel syndrome.

Also, you should post pics of you all sweaty at the gym.

That would explain it.

And we'll see. I usually smell pretty gross after the gym, so I can imagine sight is much better...though I usually shower before I ever look at myself.

only at night when everyone else is sleeping

Close Captioning is often lagging and has a lot of spelling mistakes if the show is going out live. Therefore when watching the new it is particularly bad. The use of set top box captioning is often better than television captions...

I don't really like CC's. I read everything, and I miss the program.

I watch CC once in a while, I'm not hard of hearing or anything but I do sometimes like it when I can't understand a character who is rushing in their lines. It usually doesn't lag too bad but there are occasions when it's full of gaps and typos and other stuff. I used to watch them all the time when I was younger and we got a CC capable TV but now if I turn them on, I tend to read them instead of watching the show.

oh... I thought this was the corn chips :(

Close Captioning is often lagging and has a lot of spelling mistakes if the show is going out live. Therefore when watching the new it is particularly bad. The use of set top box captioning is often better than television captions...

What is top box captioning?

An interesting side effect of watching with the CC on is that sometimes you get to see lines in the captioning that were cut from the broadcast.

subtitles, especially live, always suck. Half the time they are completely unintelligible. I'm not deaf but I used to live with a couple of people who were and I always admired their ability to stare at these lines of drivel and not hurl a brick through our tv in frustration!

Movie subtitles are usually okay but don't always differentiate between different characters lines when two people are on the screen at the same time.

Sign Zone programming is always much better - I really prefer them.

I rarely watch TV so I rarely see closed captioning. Occasionally they have it on at the chow hall, which annoys me because if I see it I have to read it (I'm weird like that) and it's usually fully of misspellings and horrible grammatical errors.

I do put subtitles on movies when I'm watching them by myself because my hearing isn't quite what it was before I joined the military. One interesting effect of subtitling is that when I set an English language movie to French audio and subtitles the audio and subtitles are often slightly different, due to different translations or screen space requirements.

German TVs don't have close captioning. Occasionally, a show will have subtitles for the hard of hearing on TV text (which many North Americans may never have heard of).

I use Close Captioning on my television since I am considered hard of hearing, and I'm just wondering if anyone else uses it. If you do, is your CC keeping up with what's going on in the show? For some reason for the past two days, it either doesn't work or is five seconds to thirty seconds behind the dialogue.

Anyone else who uses CC have this problem?

Mine goes a little haywire at the commercials (we use it mainly in conjunction with the "Mute" button-My wife and I live on different shifts.)

I watch tv with captions on all the time, 'cept news channels where the captioning runs behind. Generally any really wordy program has the captions run behind. I also use English subtitles on DVDs. Kind of irks me if they don't have 'em.

German TVs don't have close captioning. Occasionally, a show will have subtitles for the hard of hearing on TV text (which many North Americans may never have heard of).

We have TEXT options in the CC menue but it never seems to do anything

All shows that are in other languages in Finland have subtitles. Here, they are quite good.