G'day Everyone!
In less than a day from now, television (TV), which has been broadcasting in analog for so many decades, will finally be given the *Pause* button for a life time. Tomorrow, June 12, 2009, is suppose to be the day many cable providers will begin to broadcast in digital TV format. The big question is, will closed captioning be affected? I hope not!
So, it will be the day many of us will find things changed on TV. Some TV sets will work. Some will not. Some people, who have long depended on the analog signal, will have to go out and buy a cable box to watch TV through the cable companies.
Whatever happens on June 12, it will be an interesting day. Link: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/11/dtv.digital.tv.transition/index.html
If your TV wimps out, there's always the blog world. :-)
Semper FI.
1 comment:
I switched to a digital converter box last year and had NO problems with the closed captioning (I am Deaf). In fact, they actually have MORE captioning options for broadcasters to take advantage of. There are more fonts and colors available along with better positioning of captions.
Now... if only HDMI hadn't screwed up captioning so badly I'd be a huge lover of the HDTV movement.
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