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Misspellings and unusual
characters sometimes occur dur-
ing closed caption transmissions,
especially those of live events.
There may be a small delay before
captions appear when you change
channels. These are not malfunc-
tions of the TV.
3
Move the joystick to the
left or right to turn closed
captioning “on” or “off”.
4
Move the joystick down to
select “Mode”, then move
the joystick to the left or
right to select “Caption” or
“Text.”
Viewing Closed Captions
Your TV decodes and displays the closed captions that are broadcast with certain TV shows.
These captions are usually subtitles for the hearing impaired or foreign-language trans-
lations. All VCRs record the closed caption signal from television programs, so home-record-
ed video tapes also provide closed captions. Most pre-recorded commercial video tapes pro-
vide closed captions as well. Check for the closed caption symbol in your television schedule
and on the tape’s packaging:
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1
Press the
Menu
button.
Move the joystick down to
select “FUNCTION”, then
press the joystick to enter.
2
Move the joystick down to
select “Caption”, then
press the joystick to enter.
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5
Depending on the particular broadcast, it might be necessary to
make changes to “Channel” and “Field”:
Use the joystick buttons to make the changes. (Follow the same pro-
cedure as in steps 3~4 above.)
Press the
Menu
button to exit.
Different channels and fields
display different information:
Field 2
carries additional information that
supplements the information in
Field 1. (For example, Channel 1
may have subtitles in English,
while Channel 2 has subtitles in
Spanish.)
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In
caption mode
, captions
appear at the bottom of the
screen, and they usually cover
only a small portion of the pic-
ture.
In
text mode
, information unre-
lated to the program, such as
news or weather, is displayed.
Text often covers a large portion
of the screen.
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Quick way to access captions
menu: Simply press the “Caption”
button on the remote control:
Note: The Caption feature doesn’t work in Component1(480p),
Component2, Zoom1, or Zoom2 mode.
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