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pentium100
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Post subject: Closed captions on letterbox LDs Posted: 21 Mar 2017, 23:03 |
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Joined: 14 Feb 2017, 22:30 Posts: 5 Location: Lithuania Has thanked: 0 time Been thanked: 0 time
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Hi, some of my friends like when movies have subtitles and since quite a few NTSC LDs have captions, I though to get a decoder.
I bought a SoftTouch MagHubcap, connected it and got the captions, however, the people who were making the LD were very thoughtful and placed the captions in the black bars so they do not obscure the image. The problem - I have a widescreen TV and if I zoom the picture, I do not see the captions.
Now I am thinking of getting a character generator and using a PC to display the captions (the MagHubcap can output the captions with their control codes on a serial port). One of my LD players (CLD-V2300D) has a built-in character generator, the problem is that it only has 20 columns, but the standard requires 32 (meaning that it would be more difficult for me to convert the caption positions, though I guess I could just use the text and ignore the positions, something I will try before buying a character generator).
Do you use captions? How did you solve the problem of displaying them on a widescreen TV?
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