Solved! Need help for closed captions on Play Station 3
Friday, December 4th, 2015 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_kI'm looking for a DVD/CD player which decodes the old-style, line 21, white-on-black closed captions. (Not the SDH subtitles chosen from a disk menu.) I've read rumors that the PS3 provides this feature.
If you own a
you could perform a simple test to confirm this, and I could get a DVD/CD player which works for our household!
On the PS3, turn on captioning capability as follows, (according to the PS3 manual)
Play the DVD. Let me know what you see: are there captions? (These captions may very well be a lot prettier than the original, white-on-black displayed on pre-HD TVs.) Does their placement depend on who's speaking?
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If you own a
- North American PS3
- connected to an HD television with an HDMI cable
- one older US TV program on DVD
you could perform a simple test to confirm this, and I could get a DVD/CD player which works for our household!
On the PS3, turn on captioning capability as follows, (according to the PS3 manual)
- press the PS button to show the MXB menu
- choose Settings
- choose Video Settings
- choose "Closed Captions" eighth item down
- choose "On"
- dismiss the MXB menu
Play the DVD. Let me know what you see: are there captions? (These captions may very well be a lot prettier than the original, white-on-black displayed on pre-HD TVs.) Does their placement depend on who's speaking?
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Date: 2015-12-04 11:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-05 12:31 am (UTC)Once you turn on the PS3 and play the DVD, on my device you press the triangle button to show the menu of...icon selections. Then you select the one for "subtitles" and you can toggle things of and on.
I think the instructions you're looking at might be for the PS4, because that sounds like how you do it for the PS4? Either that or for a different version or something. But either way, it works.
I used a 2011 US DVD copy of Lark Rise to Candleford.
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Date: 2015-12-05 03:08 am (UTC)Thanks so much for following my errant instructions and providing the info I sought.
Now, what can I do for you?
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Date: 2015-12-05 05:57 pm (UTC)(it looks like the "provide captions" is the PS button on Netflix, so, it seems to vary greatly. i...don't get it? but yes.)
if you have "here are cute or happy or funny things to beat back brain weasels", i could do with a dose. <3