Comments on: Are you, deaf, plan to get new TV? BEWARE!

By: iballoon

iballoon — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:00:36 +0000

last weekend, I stay at Holiday Inn Express in Houston. I notice there is TV which is quiet nice. One button for CC right there on television set. Wonderful! I don’t have to look around on remote.

By: Ken Breen

Ken Breen — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:26:56 +0000

I have DirecTV and subscribe to the MLB Extra Innings. The programming comes with “enhancements” from DTV. Enhacements, only if you are NOT deaf. They interfer or override the closed captions part of the program. The only way to receive captions is if you press the Exit button on your remote control. I only discovered this after PLBSWH experimenting. But what if I’m taping a game, and there is no one home to Exit the DTV garbage, er, enhancements? Right, my tape comes out useless to me, without the closed captions I need for full enjoyment of the programming I’ve paid my money for! I’ve tried leaving the set top receiver turned on all day and tuned to the station I want to tape. That didn’t get the captions for my game either.

By: purtle

purtle — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:35:59 +0000

Yes, I was stuck and unable to turn on CC on tv when my remote was packed in the boxes. Now I know and will be sure to look for button “CC” on tv.

By: Kim Ward

Kim Ward — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:56:25 +0000

I found this to be true at a hotel I stayed recently– a Hilton in NM. They got brand new TV’s. Every night I wanted to watch TV and the captions would not work. They kept sending a man up to our room to fix the captions, but no one in the hotel could make the captions work. The remote CC buttons would not make the captions work and the CC was not on the menu button when you brought up the menu for the TV!! It was very, very frustrating!! We stayed there for four nights. When we left I complained to the hotel mgr. I told him how angry I was and that the ADA specified captioned TV’s! That this was NOT a new law, that this bill had been passed in July of 1990. You know what he said? “The laws says we have to provide captioned TV’s, not that we have to know how to operate them.” GRRRRR! If nobody in his frickin hotel can figure it out, how am I supposed to?!?!