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Author:  rikkiforce [ 14 Jan 2014, 00:25 ]
Post subject:  Help with choice of closed caption decoder
I'm living in Sweden and are looking for a closed caption decoder for my laserdisc player.

CC is not built in our TV sets here in Europe.

I have been searching the internet and found out that I need one with composite input and output. But what I cant seem to find is information on positioning the captions on the screen.
I watch a lot of movies on LD that are in widescreen and I have my TV set on zoom so that the aspect ratio is correct in 16:9. and if the captioning is locked in the bottom of a 4:3 image I will not see the text.

So what I want is:
A CCD with the option to move the captions on screen.
Not make the image worse.
The ability to change font and size. and remove the black behind the letters, or maybe make it transparent.

Is there such a device?
Author:  naiaru [ 14 Jan 2014, 02:50 ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with choice of closed caption decoder
rikkiforce wrote:
I'm living in Sweden and are looking for a closed caption decoder for my laserdisc player.

CC is not built in our TV sets here in Europe.

I have been searching the internet and found out that I need one with composite input and output. But what I cant seem to find is information on positioning the captions on the screen.
I watch a lot of movies on LD that are in widescreen and I have my TV set on zoom so that the aspect ratio is correct in 16:9. and if the captioning is locked in the bottom of a 4:3 image I will not see the text.

So what I want is:
A CCD with the option to move the captions on screen.
Not make the image worse.
The ability to change font and size. and remove the black behind the letters, or maybe make it transparent.

Is there such a device?

The TV Guardian 101 has white text on translucent background. (I've had two units. One unit started each line with a capital letter and the rest was lowercase and the other unit was in all-caps, but both were white text on a (very) translucent background. Also, don't worry about the parental control type stuff, you can disable all that and treat it like a regular CC decoder.)
Author:  kris [ 14 Jan 2014, 19:55 ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with choice of closed caption decoder
rikkiforce wrote:
I'm living in Sweden and are looking for a closed caption decoder for my laserdisc player.

CC is not built in our TV sets here in Europe.

I have been searching the internet and found out that I need one with composite input and output. But what I cant seem to find is information on positioning the captions on the screen.
I watch a lot of movies on LD that are in widescreen and I have my TV set on zoom so that the aspect ratio is correct in 16:9. and if the captioning is locked in the bottom of a 4:3 image I will not see the text.

So what I want is:
A CCD with the option to move the captions on screen.
Not make the image worse.
The ability to change font and size. and remove the black behind the letters, or maybe make it transparent.

Is there such a device?


The one that does it all E tech HQ-2000 (not a big brand but sure up to the job)

Sold one just today :shock: I am very sorry.
I might be able to find another unit ....
Pm me if you want some pics. As I said, I sold mine already.Maybe know one for sale....
Author:  rikkiforce [ 14 Jan 2014, 22:45 ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with choice of closed caption decoder
kris wrote:
rikkiforce wrote:
I'm living in Sweden and are looking for a closed caption decoder for my laserdisc player.

CC is not built in our TV sets here in Europe.

I have been searching the internet and found out that I need one with composite input and output. But what I cant seem to find is information on positioning the captions on the screen.
I watch a lot of movies on LD that are in widescreen and I have my TV set on zoom so that the aspect ratio is correct in 16:9. and if the captioning is locked in the bottom of a 4:3 image I will not see the text.

So what I want is:
A CCD with the option to move the captions on screen.
Not make the image worse.
The ability to change font and size. and remove the black behind the letters, or maybe make it transparent.

Is there such a device?


The one that does it all E tech HQ-2000 (not a big brand but sure up to the job)

Sold one just today :shock: I am very sorry.
I might be able to find another unit ....
Pm me if you want some pics. As I said, I sold mine already.Maybe know one for sale....


thanks for the reply! sounds like a good unit! Looked on ebay but did not find one.
so if you find one what do you think it will cost me?
Author:  rikkiforce [ 14 Jan 2014, 22:46 ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with choice of closed caption decoder
naiaru wrote:
rikkiforce wrote:
I'm living in Sweden and are looking for a closed caption decoder for my laserdisc player.

CC is not built in our TV sets here in Europe.

I have been searching the internet and found out that I need one with composite input and output. But what I cant seem to find is information on positioning the captions on the screen.
I watch a lot of movies on LD that are in widescreen and I have my TV set on zoom so that the aspect ratio is correct in 16:9. and if the captioning is locked in the bottom of a 4:3 image I will not see the text.

So what I want is:
A CCD with the option to move the captions on screen.
Not make the image worse.
The ability to change font and size. and remove the black behind the letters, or maybe make it transparent.

Is there such a device?

The TV Guardian 101 has white text on translucent background. (I've had two units. One unit started each line with a capital letter and the rest was lowercase and the other unit was in all-caps, but both were white text on a (very) translucent background. Also, don't worry about the parental control type stuff, you can disable all that and treat it like a regular CC decoder.)


thanks for the reply! do you know if I will be able to move the captions on the screen?
Author:  naiaru [ 15 Jan 2014, 04:37 ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with choice of closed caption decoder
rikkiforce wrote:
naiaru wrote:
rikkiforce wrote:
I'm living in Sweden and are looking for a closed caption decoder for my laserdisc player.

CC is not built in our TV sets here in Europe.

I have been searching the internet and found out that I need one with composite input and output. But what I cant seem to find is information on positioning the captions on the screen.
I watch a lot of movies on LD that are in widescreen and I have my TV set on zoom so that the aspect ratio is correct in 16:9. and if the captioning is locked in the bottom of a 4:3 image I will not see the text.

So what I want is:
A CCD with the option to move the captions on screen.
Not make the image worse.
The ability to change font and size. and remove the black behind the letters, or maybe make it transparent.

Is there such a device?

The TV Guardian 101 has white text on translucent background. (I've had two units. One unit started each line with a capital letter and the rest was lowercase and the other unit was in all-caps, but both were white text on a (very) translucent background. Also, don't worry about the parental control type stuff, you can disable all that and treat it like a regular CC decoder.)


thanks for the reply! do you know if I will be able to move the captions on the screen?

You can't with the TV Guardian 101.
Author:  rikkiforce [ 16 Jan 2014, 00:00 ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with choice of closed caption decoder
naiaru wrote:
You can't with the TV Guardian 101.


ok, thanks anyway :)
Author:  kris [ 16 Jan 2014, 17:40 ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with choice of closed caption decoder
Wanted to post some cropped pictures from the hq-2000 but I must be doing something wrong....
The board quota has been reached...? I'm not that good with computers I'm afraid :shh:
Author:  naiaru [ 16 Jan 2014, 19:57 ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with choice of closed caption decoder
kris wrote:
Wanted to post some cropped pictures from the hq-2000 but I must be doing something wrong....
The board quota has been reached...? I'm not that good with computers I'm afraid :shh:

Upload it to tinypic or something like it and post a link here inside the image tags [img]url_here[/img]
Author:  elahrairrah [ 16 Jan 2014, 21:30 ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with choice of closed caption decoder
The DVD recorder, Panasonic DMR-EZ48VK, had some pretty nifty CC capabilities. You can change the color of the captions and the background. I don't recall if you can change the position though.

I'll plug mine in when I get home and check for you.
Author:  elahrairrah [ 16 Jan 2014, 21:36 ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with choice of closed caption decoder
Nevermind, I checked the manual. Doesn't seem like you can change the position of the captions on the DMR-EZ48VK . . .

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Author:  rikkiforce [ 16 Jan 2014, 22:57 ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with choice of closed caption decoder
elahrairrah wrote:
Nevermind, I checked the manual. Doesn't seem like you can change the position of the captions on the DMR-EZ48VK . . .

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Too bad. That is a big issue for me im afraid :) but thank you for your post!
Author:  rikkiforce [ 16 Jan 2014, 22:59 ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with choice of closed caption decoder
kris wrote:
Wanted to post some cropped pictures from the hq-2000 but I must be doing something wrong....
The board quota has been reached...? I'm not that good with computers I'm afraid :shh:


Ok. I can pm you with my e-mail and maybe you can send them to me later?
Author:  rikkiforce [ 18 Jan 2014, 13:12 ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with choice of closed caption decoder
ok, here are some pictures of the HQ-2000 that I got from kris. Thanks!

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Looks like a good unit! :)
Author:  laurikreen [ 01 Jun 2016, 13:23 ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with choice of closed caption decoder
BTW - this E-Teck HQ-2000 has also slot for CC/Subtitle Cartridges.
They were used at least in Taiwan and China.

Look here (and the mystery is solved...):
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http://chinesehacks.com/app/uploads/201 ... player.jpg
NEW: back-side; RCA only: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkCRWniUYAAS3x1.jpg
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http://chinesehacks.com/app/uploads/201 ... -cards.jpg
http://chinesehacks.com/app/uploads/201 ... e-card.jpg
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https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthin ... e_village/
http://www.smspower.org/forums/11983-74 ... hCartridge
http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/can ... are.36105/
http://imgur.com/a/y4Bnn
https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthin ... t_on_this/
Author:  signofzeta [ 01 Jun 2016, 20:44 ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with choice of closed caption decoder
This is really cool. Up until now I thought American anime fans were the only ones subtitling stuff at home.

I don't suppose there is any chance the overlay circuitry is any good whatsoever...it would be really cool if it was. It can't be that hard to make your own carts.
Author:  laurikreen [ 29 Oct 2016, 10:49 ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with choice of closed caption decoder
Anybody has E-Teck HQ-2000 for sale?
Author:  reinbo [ 04 Nov 2021, 15:35 ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with choice of closed caption decoder
laurikreen wrote:
Anybody has E-Teck HQ-2000 for sale?



A bit late, but yes I do.
Author:  abasira [ 27 Feb 2022, 14:50 ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with choice of closed caption decoder
Hola, yo tengo varios aparatos para visualizar subtítulos CC: ligitek, Futek, mycap y Contemporary Research CR. Todos funcionan perfectamente. Sin embargo los 2 aparatos de la marca Futek funcionan a 100V.
Actualmente el decodificador que estoy utilizando es el aparato Contemporary Research CR.
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