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Originally Posted by danlo
Well, do you really have a Fortec receiver!
The CC signal is there and Fortec does work on it but the CC is not not displayed correctly! For example, "yes" is displayed as "ys" and so on.
There must have a EIA-608/708 closed caption decoder. Otherwise, the TV would not show any characters!
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Actually, I have 2 Fortec receivers, which was my problem. I didn't see any hint of CC on channels that were transmitting them, on my main receiver, which is why I responded as I did. However, before responding to this message, I thought that I should try on my 2nd receiver, which is a newer one, and is one that I don't watch TV on, but use only for searching. Well, it turns out that on that receiver I get the symptoms you describe. So it looks like you're right, that the Ultra is at least trying to "encode" line 21.
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Originally Posted by danlo
BTW, the problem is just like AC3 stream that Fortec simply bypasses it without trying to decode it. However, with the digital packets to get the caption out and feed it to the TV is much easier than an AC3 decoder. Yes, you are right. This can be done in software and hope Fortec will give us an update soon! |
It would be "easier" if the Fortec itself put the captions on the screen, however it is not easier if the Fortec tries to reconstruct the line-21 info so that the TV can display it, which is preferred, and what it seems to be trying to do. I think encoding line 21 is much harder than just passing through AC3 info. I assume that there must be hardware solutions to this, but that is probably more expensive, so they are probably doing it via software, which I would guess is tricky. Since they are at least trying to impliment this, I'd assume that they will eventually get it right.