[Athen] HDTV and Captions

[Kerri Hicks]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Gerry Nies
<gerrynies at mail.und.nodak.edu> wrote:

> The quick question is do the HDTVs have captioning?

>

> The more I read on the topic the more confused I am. Seems like with it may be dependent on converter box cable etc.


I grappled with this a while back, and wrote a blog post on it.

http://kerrihicks.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/cable-hdtv-hdmi-and-closed-captions/

The takeaway is, if you have digital cable, the cable box probably has
a closed-caption decoder in it, which will send captions to an HDMI
broadcast.

Unless it doesn't. :-)

Good luck!

--Kerri