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[for those not familiar, Closed Captions were two bytes of ASCII embedded in line 21 of the vertical retrace interval of analog NTSC, and using a decoding circuit in the receiving TV to supermpose the text on the video image. Some people HATED their existence - due to being upset at having stuff to READ pushed at them, not just from the possibility that it might cover cleavage.] On Mon, 27 May 2013, Chuck Guzis wrote: It appears to be the crudest area in the industry. I once called a local station and let them know that the caption signal had been missing for a few days. They thanked me, and told me that they were "UNABLE to tell whether it was working, because none of the staff is deaf". Live broadcasts now often attempt to use voice-to-text software, without any training of the system. That, of course, frequently leads to totally incomprehensible captions. Even non-live captioning is often not proofread.

Some captioners are excellent. Some not. Some make the worst of internet spelling and illiteracy look good. Their knot to good. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com