Set Closed Captioning Options

Closed captioning is a service that can be used no matter how great or poor your hearing might be. In our home, for instance, we like to have it on so that no matter what is happening in the house, we can always "hear" what’s happening on the screen. Call us TV junkies if you will, but it’s handy—especially if you have noisy kids and you’re just trying to catch the news for a few seconds. Just mute the TV set, and closed captioning will appear as long as you have turned it on.

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Closed captioning technology displays written text on your screen that corresponds to the words being spoken on the program being shown.

There are two different closed captioning options in Media Center. The first involves TV programming; the ...

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