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a delay of what is being
said.
My captions are scrambled
with white boxes on the TV thunderstorms, etc. may cause scrambled or incomplete
My program guide listed a
TV show as being closed
captioned but none of the
captions were displayed.
My prerecorded video tape
tape does not show any
captions.
The tape box mentions it
being closed captioned.
My TV screen shows a black You are in the TEXT mode. Select CAPTION mode or
box on certain channels.
captioning production companies can display a dialogue
to a maximum of 220 words per minute. If a dialogue
exceeds that rate, selective editing is used to insure that
the captions remain up-to-date with the current TV
screen dialogue.
Interference caused by building, power lines,
captions to appear.
Broadcasters may at times use a time compression
process to speed up the actual program so that
additional advertising time can be given. Since
the decoder cannot read the compressed information,
captions will be lost.
The video tape was either an illegal copy or the
duplicating company accidentally left out the
captioning signals during the copy process.
CAPTION [OFF].
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