Comments on: Samsung DVD-HD860 won’t display closed captioning

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:34:37 +0000

Hi Tom. You mentioned that Panasonic DMREZ28 will help the TV to display CC if the TV does not have CC capability. Is that right?

Are you from USA or UK? The reason I asked is because both US and UK have this model. USA model is Panasonic DMREZ28K. It has a K at the end of it. The UK model does not have a K at the end of it.

I live in Australia and buys Region 1 DVDs. Unfortunately, our TVs here cannot display Region 1 CCs.

Thanks.

By: Frans Goosens

Frans Goosens — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:01:57 +0000

I have solve the problem with subtitle ( .srt ) on samsung TV’s
I have make an program that can do this. It is Free-ware.
If you want it, just e-mail me, then i sent it to you.
My e-mail is:
F.G.Goosens@Gmail.com

By: Ron Faut

Ron Faut — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:41:03 +0000

My Dish HD DVR is connected to my Samsung 46″ HDTV with component cables. It does not display CC when pressing that button on the TV remote. You must go to the menu/preferences/closed captions on the Dish DVR remote and choose “ON”. This will turn the closed captions on and will be displayed on the TV if the channel you are watching sends CC. The delay is at least 10 seconds before the CC are shown on the screen. Be patient. The CC on the TV remote will still show “not available”. Ignore it.
Ron

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:07:41 +0000

if you tried to open closed captioning on hdtv set or cable and satellite dvr set, you might have use your computer to connect your dvr like same channel in two rooms. Lucky, you will see closed captioning on your computer if you have window media center. you will need to connect use coxial cable, dvi, or rca video to your dvr and to your computer. Do not use hdmi or iEEE because it won' t support hdtv. Future, hdtv will plan to provide a new digital closed captioning.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:39:43 +0000

There are a couple of Panasonic DVD recorders that merge closed captions with the picture before sending over HDMI. I just purchased a panasonic DMREZ28 from best buy and after hooking up hdmi and activateding analog and digital CC in the dvd players setup was able to view Stargate Season 1 disc 1 with CC via HDMI, even though I had turned off my tvs closed caption decoder as a test, to confirm that the dvd recorder had the caption decoder built in. It worked perfectly and now I can view my old dvds with CCs and upconverted up to 1080p. It is pricier than a standalone dvd player. The recorder costs around $230 but is worth every penny. There is an older model that does the same thing, the DMREZ27. Please know that none of the panasonic dvd “players” have this feature, only the recorders.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:08:02 +0000

Nice Post! Thanks For The Info..

By: Norm

Norm — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:03:52 +0000

I did much the same as Mara. I use HDMI when it has subtitles, and use a composite connection when I want CC. The picture is degraded, but at least I can understand what’s going on.

By: Lean Wind

Lean Wind — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:36:48 +0000

The component/composite solution is just a workaround. I did not pay a few grand for my HD system to watch videos in 480i. The problem has been discussed at length over at avsforum.com and it seems there is no solution at this point to this issue. Here is a link http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=699933 or you can just google “hdmi closed captions” and go for the first hit.

By: Mara

Mara — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:56:27 +0000

My mom got a Sony HD TV and a Sony DVPNS77H upconvert DVD player hooked up by an HDMI cable. The quality is great, but when she played DVDs recorded from regular TV, no closed caption appeared. We hooked up her old DVD player via component cables and the CC appeared, so we know it’s not the TV.

I contacted Sony and their reply was:
At this time, televisions do not have the ability to decode closed captioned signals from an HDMI connection.

So I ended up connecting the new DVD player to the TV twice…one connection with the HDMI and one with component. For DVDs that only have CC, we switch the input to the component connection, and it works fine this way.

By: Scott Vela

Scott Vela — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:51:14 +0000

Hey Grayson Peddie,

I just got my HDTV samsung with 1080p 46″ LCD HDTV and I ordered HD digital cable box (Motorola). I was upset when my HDTV doesnt display captions until I find this page and saw your comment and I went into Motorola and saw the Captions display in menu… turned it on… still no captions…. hmmm. Maybe the digital box is broken. Cable man will come saturday to check it out. Glad I read this forum because I was about to bash it on Samsung. I did spoke to samsung and they explained me that RF coxal and A/V inputs has captions decoder but HDMI, Componet, and PC modes doesn’t have captions decoder. So that explains. Future techs gonna be major problems for us deafies. (I was told that Bill Gates hired 250 people to work on talking computer without using keyboard.) Sound bad for deafies ha. Unless they thought of another way for deaf people too?

Now I am able to play PS3 on my 46″ hdtv and it was coolest! My Blu Ray will have to use subtitles since HDMI donest allow captions on my HDTV. Boo Hoo Wah!