staufway
01-26-2007, 02:44 PM
Hello folks,
I just recently purchased a SHARP AQUOS LCD TV with dual HDMI-inputs. I figure it was high-time that I upgraded my TV as it is. I figure since I have a TV capable of displaying HD up to 1080p that I may as well upgrade my DVD player as well to an HDMI-upconverting DVD player as I do not find the HD-DVD and the BLU-RAY to be worth what you have to pay for...very far from it.
Anyways, the DVD player I got is the LG LDA-731 which upconverts to 1080i at most and plugged it in the TV via HDMI and started playing a movie. What happens is, there is no "closed-captioning", which is the white text displayed on a black background near the bottom of the TV (not to be confused with "subtitles"), being displayed at all. The problem is there are quite a few DVDs do not have English subtitles but they have English closed-captioning instead and while some other DVDs may have English subtitles, but some studios do a poor job of doing them meaning it doesn't display every word that is being said or musical lyrics, etc. *cough* Warner Bros. *ahem*
So I tried plugging in the new DVD player via A/V inputs (red, white, yellow) and the closed-captioning works just fine so that rules out the DVD player being the cause.
So despite all the touting and praise that HDMI gets, it does not have a capability that has been around for a very long time now, which is to display "closed-captioning"? What a gyp....:>(
Yes I am very certain my closed-captioning is on ~he he~ when I press the "CC" button, all that shows up on screen is "HDMI INPUT# and screen resolution",,,,,no "CC on/off".
Can anyone else confirm this for me, any input would be appreciated, thanks! :)
~staufway~
I just recently purchased a SHARP AQUOS LCD TV with dual HDMI-inputs. I figure it was high-time that I upgraded my TV as it is. I figure since I have a TV capable of displaying HD up to 1080p that I may as well upgrade my DVD player as well to an HDMI-upconverting DVD player as I do not find the HD-DVD and the BLU-RAY to be worth what you have to pay for...very far from it.
Anyways, the DVD player I got is the LG LDA-731 which upconverts to 1080i at most and plugged it in the TV via HDMI and started playing a movie. What happens is, there is no "closed-captioning", which is the white text displayed on a black background near the bottom of the TV (not to be confused with "subtitles"), being displayed at all. The problem is there are quite a few DVDs do not have English subtitles but they have English closed-captioning instead and while some other DVDs may have English subtitles, but some studios do a poor job of doing them meaning it doesn't display every word that is being said or musical lyrics, etc. *cough* Warner Bros. *ahem*
So I tried plugging in the new DVD player via A/V inputs (red, white, yellow) and the closed-captioning works just fine so that rules out the DVD player being the cause.
So despite all the touting and praise that HDMI gets, it does not have a capability that has been around for a very long time now, which is to display "closed-captioning"? What a gyp....:>(
Yes I am very certain my closed-captioning is on ~he he~ when I press the "CC" button, all that shows up on screen is "HDMI INPUT# and screen resolution",,,,,no "CC on/off".
Can anyone else confirm this for me, any input would be appreciated, thanks! :)
~staufway~