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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | As most of you know... I just did get a blu-ray player. Yes I am very late to the club. And I wouldn't even have it if it wasn't a gift from my daughter (she got a new one so gave me her current one). Since then a bunch of my friends has been helping me out and giving me some movies on BD. Very grateful btw!  As of right now I have... In Owned: 28 BD discs In Ordered: 11 BD discs Looking over the profiles I had a couple basic questions. Out of the 39 profiles only 1 is marked to have Closed Captioning... Is CC something that is virtually never used for BD discs? - Is it most likely the one is wrong.. other profiles not complete... or Everything is right and it is just rare? I can't seem to find a way to check this with my current TV. There is a CC button on the TV remote... but nothing happens when I push it. I am guessing this is because CC not available on the disc? I need to pop in the one that is marked as having CC to check it I guess. - I only have a standard (old tube TV)... the Blu-ray is one that can hook to it fine... but all the BDs looks like they are full framed instead of widescreen. Is there anything (short of a new TV... I know I desperately need a new TV!  ) I can do to get these to look right (in widescreen) on my TV? Thanks for any answers.  | | | | Pete |
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| | Posted: | | | | LI just did a quick query and found that out of my 1466 BDs only 102 are indicated by DVDP as having CC. I never use it. So it appears that most don't have CC.
There should be a setting somewhere in the Blu-ray players menu to output it I believe. I had a PS3 before I got my HDTV, and it was set up for a 4:3 SDTV. What's the model number of the blu-ray player? | | | HDTV: 52" Toshiba Regza 52XV545U AVR: Onkyo TR-707
Speakers: Paradigm Monitor 7 v6, CC-190 & Atom Monitors Subwoofer: Definitive Technology ProSub 800
BD/DVD: Oppo BDP-93 (Region Free) HD PVR: Motorola DXC3400 500GB w/ 1TB Expander
BD/DVD/Game: 250GB PS3 Slim DVD/Game: 250GB XBox 360 Elite Special Edition (Black) Game: Wii
Remote: Logitech Harmony One w/ PS3 Adapter WHS: Acer H341 Windows Home Server |
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| | Posted: | | | | I don't see the model number on the front... so will have to try to get behind it a little later when I have more time. But it is Vizio player. Britt's grandmother originally bought it for her from walmart. personally never heard of Vizio before. | | | | Pete |
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Addicted2DVD: Quote:
I don't see the model number on the front... so will have to try to get behind it a little later when I have more time. But it is Vizio player. Britt's grandmother originally bought it for her from walmart. personally never heard of Vizio before. Here is a Vizio Manual, which might be similar to your player. Look on pages 29/30, looking for TV Aspect, you want 4:3 Letterbox | | | HDTV: 52" Toshiba Regza 52XV545U AVR: Onkyo TR-707
Speakers: Paradigm Monitor 7 v6, CC-190 & Atom Monitors Subwoofer: Definitive Technology ProSub 800
BD/DVD: Oppo BDP-93 (Region Free) HD PVR: Motorola DXC3400 500GB w/ 1TB Expander
BD/DVD/Game: 250GB PS3 Slim DVD/Game: 250GB XBox 360 Elite Special Edition (Black) Game: Wii
Remote: Logitech Harmony One w/ PS3 Adapter WHS: Acer H341 Windows Home Server |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 4,245 |
| | Posted: | | | | I don't own or have direct knowledge of that brand, but it should be something like the following.
Via the players remote click on either the Menu or Setup menu, find a menu pertaining to Display or Video output. See what the setting is. It should be set for Standard or 4:3 ratio. |
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| | Posted: | | | | Thanks. I will check it out! | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 4,679 |
| | Posted: | | | | Regarding CC, it's my understanding that CC is not part of the blu-ray specs, so BDs should not have CC. They should have regular subtitles for captioning. But apparently not all manufacturers heed that. | | | My freeware tools for DVD Profiler users.
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting GSyren: Quote:
Regarding CC, it's my understanding that CC is not part of the blu-ray specs, so BDs should not have CC. They should have regular subtitles for captioning. But apparently not all manufacturers heed that. Interesting. After a quick google search it appears you are correct. But many do indicate CC on the back covers, Below is the Canadian Blu-ray of Independence Day and it does have the CC symbol  Hard to make it out at this resolution, but it's at the far right of the audio tab, a third of the way up. I'll have to try it out this evening when I get home. | | | HDTV: 52" Toshiba Regza 52XV545U AVR: Onkyo TR-707
Speakers: Paradigm Monitor 7 v6, CC-190 & Atom Monitors Subwoofer: Definitive Technology ProSub 800
BD/DVD: Oppo BDP-93 (Region Free) HD PVR: Motorola DXC3400 500GB w/ 1TB Expander
BD/DVD/Game: 250GB PS3 Slim DVD/Game: 250GB XBox 360 Elite Special Edition (Black) Game: Wii
Remote: Logitech Harmony One w/ PS3 Adapter WHS: Acer H341 Windows Home Server |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,279 |
| | Posted: | | | | From what I've read Blu-ray can't carry CC info for the decoding hardware. My guess is that it's really just using the standard subtitles process with extra info describing the action/other sounds and they're being lazy in their description of it, as the outcome is the same.
On UK titles this sort of subtitling is described as "subtitles for the hearing impaired". | | | | IVS Registered: January 2, 2002 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | Made me check if that is the case with this one... but mine is on a Lionsgate release... Stargate Regions ABC Released: 8/22/2006 Widescreen 2.35 It don't say either way on the cover scan that I can see. | | | | Pete |
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| | Posted: | | | | btw... thanks for the link Corey. It did a good job answering my CC question. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,279 |
| | Posted: | | | | Fair enough. Wikipedia needs editing. Then get profiler to acknowledge sdh and we're all set | | | | IVS Registered: January 2, 2002 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | still anxiously waiting for the day when you get a 16x9 tv that will Have both hdmi / and or component jacks /..
I guess you have the BR player hooked up via RCA jacks ..? and yes all the image(s) will be window boxed ..
then your TV viewing days will increase from 24HR to ??
Because everything you think you have seen before increases your love of film by 125% ... | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | yeah... I am waiting as well. I wouldn't have the blu-ray player if it wasn't given to me. and yeah hooked up via RCA jacks. Though for my weekend marathons I been watching on my daughter's hdtv. Which unfortunately she want to take to collage with her.  I will probably be doing a blu-ray marathon again this weekend... and will be watching on her TV again.  | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have 62 BDs with CC out of 1311.
It is probably more as I see only 6 of the Bond 50 set 22 BD are so marked. They all should be so marked.
I just check the box they come in.
Since a lot of people don't use CC, it is probably missed on a lot of BDs.
My latest TV has both 4 hdmi and 1 component jacks.
I use component jack (3 to 1 plug) and one of the hdmi for my DVD Video Recorder/Video Cassette Recorder (Toshiba) to copy some lecture courses tapes to DVD.
My older TV has only i hdmi, so I use a 3 hdmi to 1 hdmi switch for it.
But I have never used the component jack with the BD players.
I got an extra BD/DVD player for my PC, LaCie, it is smaller than a keep case, connects to hdmi or USB 3.
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