Guest guest Posted February 4, 2001 Report Share Posted February 4, 2001 > Are there certain options I should > consider when purchasing a new television???? > Any advice will be appreciated! What we did when choosing one for JD was we turned on the captioning on all the TV's in the store and looked at them all. We've been happy with our choice and I haven't once thought we got the wrong one. I'm hearing recently that there is one manufacturer who is making theirs so that the sound and captioning cannot both be on at the same time. I think I would steer clear of that one. Kay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2001 Report Share Posted February 4, 2001 Another thought...We live in Nebraska so when weather warnings, watches and statements scroll across the bottom of some channels, it blocks out the captioning on some televisions. Might be okay the first time when the viewer needs to see important info...but to lose all captioning for long periods of time while the same scroll runs and re-runs across the bottom could be a pain. You might check to see if there are T.V.'s out there where you can select or move where the captioning appears... Pam Re: Televisions > > Are there certain options I should > > consider when purchasing a new television???? > > Any advice will be appreciated! > > What we did when choosing one for JD was we turned on the captioning on all the TV's in > the store and looked at them all. We've been happy with our choice and I haven't once > thought we got the wrong one. I'm hearing recently that there is one manufacturer who is > making theirs so that the sound and captioning cannot both be on at the same time. I think > I would steer clear of that one. > > Kay > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2001 Report Share Posted February 4, 2001 At 07:41 PM 2/4/01 -0600, you wrote: >Another thought...We live in Nebraska so when weather warnings, watches and >statements scroll across the bottom of some channels, it blocks out the >captioning on some televisions. Might be okay the first time when the >viewer needs to see important info...but to lose all captioning for long >periods of time while the same scroll runs and re-runs across the bottom >could be a pain. You might check to see if there are T.V.'s out there where >you can select or move where the captioning appears... Pam, in some cases, this is the TV station not sending the captions. It's weird...we have the scrolling weather alerts, and I can't see the alert because of the captioning. :-) But when this same station does something like, say, election results, and they put the screen in the corner and some graphics and stuff on the side and bottom, suddenly the captioning signal stops. That's on all of my TVs and my Mom's, too, FWIW. Also, whenever I use any on-screen programming thingie (turning up or down the volume, setting the time, etc.) the captioning stops until I'm done. FWIW. And I found the captioning on my mom's DVD-capable laptop is AWESOME. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2001 Report Share Posted February 4, 2001 > Is there anything in particular one should look into, maybe a certain brand > has better captioning than others. Are there certain options I should > consider when purchasing a new television???? I don't know about what brands are better. I am in the same boat. There is nothing wrong with out TV's that don't have captioning and I could not afford a new one. My parents bought Petya a TV with captioning for Christmas, for her bedroom. Sometimes I catch her at night watching it, I don't know she is because the sound is turned off. (A problem I wouldn't have with a hearing kid.) Also, sometimes she watches it with sound off and her CD player going full blast. Barb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 5, 2001 Report Share Posted February 5, 2001 This is only my opinion. Get one where captioning does not require the remote - what do you do when it's lost down the side of the couch? Try to find one where the captioning stays on without having to be reset every time the tv is turned off and on. Beware of captioning requiring the mute to be on - I have read recent horror stories about a model (Panasonic, I think) - that muted the sound when the captions were on, so hearing and deaf couldn't enjoy the tv together. Make them show you the captioning in the store and ask about how it works. They probably won't know, but you can help educate the larger, hearing world to issues that are important to us. Judith mom of 8 kids and have been through MANY tvs, both with decoders and built in captioning Televisions Hi all, Finally my TV DIED!!!! Yippee!!! I say that because I have been waiting for it to " kick the bucket " so that I get a new one, it is 17 years old!!!!!!! Now that we are in the market for a new TV, of course captioning is my biggest concern, since our old one did not have captioning, and since is only 2 1/2 years old it did not make a difference. But now looking into purchasing a new one and hoping it will last at least 1/2 as long as our previous one, captioning will be a big issue. Is there anything in particular one should look into, maybe a certain brand has better captioning than others. Are there certain options I should consider when purchasing a new television???? Any advice will be appreciated! thanks, Debbie 's Mom _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 5, 2001 Report Share Posted February 5, 2001 At 02:29 PM 2/5/01 -0800, you wrote: >Beware of captioning requiring the mute to be on - I have read recent horror >stories about a model (Panasonic, I think) - that muted the sound when the >captions were on, so hearing and deaf couldn't enjoy the tv together. I have a Panasonic TV that has that option...it asks me what I want...do I want captions only with mute, mute with captions, or captions and sound. I wonder if it's just a setting, or if they've changed it recently (that would stink). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 15, 2001 Report Share Posted February 15, 2001 When you mute the sound for a few minutes on your TV's with the remote (like to answer the phone) does the CC disappear? I does on mine and Jake gets mad. Elaine Cueing Mom to Jake/Auditory Neuropathy/Clarion S-Series 2-99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 15, 2001 Report Share Posted February 15, 2001 In a message dated 2/15/2001 2:10:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, jlongman@... writes: > What kind of tv is that? > It is a GE TV that is about 4 years old. It has CC1, CC2, and off on the menu to turn it on. I actually just noticed it doing this last week after the other posts were about the CC. If it isn't on when Jake comes home from school he usually sets it himself and when he is done with his TV time for the night we turn it off (my husband doesn't like it on even though I swear he needs it with the volume he has it all the time). Anyway, like I said we were watching a Disney movie and the phone rang so I muted it to talk to take a message and noticed the CC wasn't on the screen again until I turned the mute off. Elaine Cueing Mom to Jake/Auditory Neuropathy/Clarion S-Series 2-99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 15, 2001 Report Share Posted February 15, 2001 Hi all, Just catching up on emails. I've read the other replies to this post and just wanted to add that we really like the remote on our Zenith TV (bought just prior to finding out is deaf). The remote has a separate CC button for the closed captioning menu. It's quick and easy to toggle the captioning on and off (we usually leave it on, but sometimes find we need to turn it off temporarily to view other things on the screen). This button saves having to go through several menu screens to get to the CC option. Also, a side note regarding captioning. Along with getting dialogue that may have been edited out or changed from the script (it seems to me that the script is often used to caption the shows) we've also seen the occasional curse word, even though it was " beeped " out by the station. I guess it's okay if we read these words, but not okay to hear them ;0). In addition, captioning is great in noisy environments, like a house with an active toddler. -- - mommy to , pre-pro, born 8/27/97 " Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. " --Helen Keller Debra Rabideau wrote: > > Hi all, > Finally my TV DIED!!!! Yippee!!! > I say that because I have been waiting for it to " kick the bucket " so that I > get a new one, it is 17 years old!!!!!!! > Now that we are in the market for a new TV, of course captioning is my > biggest concern, since our old one did not have captioning, and since > is only 2 1/2 years old it did not make a difference. But now looking into > purchasing a new one and hoping it will last at least 1/2 as long as our > previous one, captioning will be a big issue. > Is there anything in particular one should look into, maybe a certain brand > has better captioning than others. Are there certain options I should > consider when purchasing a new television???? > Any advice will be appreciated! > > thanks, > Debbie > 's Mom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 15, 2001 Report Share Posted February 15, 2001 > we've also seen the > occasional curse word, even though it was " beeped " out by the station. > I guess it's okay if we read these words, but not okay to hear them > ;0). I almost mentioned that. The first CC show we ever watched had a lot of beeped words that showed up in the captioning. My hubby had to convince me that this wasn't the norm before I agreed to get a CC-TV. Kay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 15, 2001 Report Share Posted February 15, 2001 At 01:30 PM 2/15/01 -0500, you wrote: >Also, a side note regarding captioning. Along with getting dialogue >that may have been edited out or changed from the script (it seems to me >that the script is often used to caption the shows) we've also seen the >occasional curse word, even though it was " beeped " out by the station. Yup! This usually happens in cinema movies that have been adapted to TV, or shows that have come from overseas (where language used on TV is a little " freer " ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 15, 2001 Report Share Posted February 15, 2001 What kind of tv is that? Re: Televisions When you mute the sound for a few minutes on your TV's with the remote (like to answer the phone) does the CC disappear? I does on mine and Jake gets mad. Elaine Cueing Mom to Jake/Auditory Neuropathy/Clarion S-Series 2-99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 15, 2001 Report Share Posted February 15, 2001 Hi Elaine, No, the captioning stays on all the time unless we specifically turn it off (or if the TV station, cable, or whoever doesn't transmit the captions). In fact, along with the choice of always on or always off, one of the CC options is for captioning when the TV is muted. The TV also has an option of " soft-mute " (a drop in volume but not complete mute), but I can't recall, when the CC when muted option is selected, if the captions show in this soft-mute mode or not (as I said, we tend to leave the captioning on all the time). All in all, we really like this TV and it's CC options, even though we didn't know was deaf when we bought it. -- - mommy to , pre-pro, born 8/27/97 " Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. " --Helen Keller beat4girl@... wrote: > > When you mute the sound for a few minutes on your TV's with the remote (like > to answer the phone) does the CC disappear? I does on mine and Jake gets mad. > Elaine > > Cueing Mom to Jake/Auditory Neuropathy/Clarion S-Series 2-99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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