13 Facts About Closed captioning

The equivalent of "Closed captioning" is usually referred to as "subtitles for the hard of hearing".

Closed captioning was first demonstrated in the United States at the First National Conference on Television for the Hearing Impaired in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1971.

Closed captioning system was successfully encoded and broadcast in 1973 with the cooperation of PBS station WETA.

The first programs seen with Closed captioning were a Disney's Wonderful World presentation of the film Son of Flubber on NBC, an ABC Sunday Night Movie airing of Semi-Tough, and Masterpiece Theatre on PBS.

Until the passage of the Television Decoder Circuitry Act of 1990, television Closed captioning was performed by a set-top box manufactured by Sanyo Electric and marketed by the National Captioning Institute .

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Closed captioning captions were created for deaf and hard of hearing individuals to assist in comprehension.

Real-time Closed captioning done outside of Closed captioning facilities, the following syntax is used:.

One of the first video game companies to feature closed captioning was Bethesda Softworks in their 1990 release of Hockey League Simulator and The Terminator 2029.

Video games don't offer Line 21 Closed captioning, decoded and displayed by the television itself but rather a built-in subtitle display, more akin to that of a DVD.

Games[CC]'s first closed captioning project called Doom3[CC] was nominated for an award as Best Doom3 Mod of the Year for IGDA's Choice Awards 2006 show.

The automatic Closed captioning is often inaccurate on videos with background music or exaggerated emotion in speaking.

CEA708 style Closed Captioning is automatically created when the CEA-608 data is created.

Line 21 closed captioning is supported, as well as HD-SDI closed captioning capture and print from AJA and Blackmagic Design cards.