Letter to FCC – HDTV Caption
31 10 2005Email to FCC today…
Last 1-2 years, deaf community including myself struggled trying to understand how closed captioning will work and how it will affect with new HDTV format. As far as I know that FCC already made sure that all newer HDTV to offer "digital caption" which offers more variety like fonts, color, bold, background, etc. It is very exciting.
My family and friend have "living room" HDTV. I’ve been trying to help them how to turn digital caption on HDTV format television. Last Saturday, we finally figure it out how to turn it on by click MENU on Comcast digital box (Not on remote!!) but we still can’t figure out how to change font or color at this point.
The cable provider & TV Maker are usually clueless when it comes with HDTV caption even on www.DTV.gov website. Personally, I am planning to buy one myself but I want to buy right one at first time.
My questions:
- When will they make it easier for deaf community to get help with digital captioning?
- Who is responsible to help them out?
- Where do I go and find more details about it? Not much of help at Google Search.
- Not all HDTV model support it — where can I find out which model that do support it.
Hope you can guide me to get more information and get some help.
Many thanks!
Grant W. Laird, Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com
Categories : deaf community, Internet, technology