In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I wish DVDs used close captioning.
Some do.
Did you try it through your TV settings?
You control the Subtitles through the DVD menus. You control the Closed Captioning through your TV set.
BluRay does not support closed captioning at all though.
EDIT:
Oh... BTW. How is your DVD player connected to your TV set? If you are using an HDMI cable for the connection, the TV won't display any Closed Captioning that is on the Disc. You have to use the old Component/Composite cable for CC to work.
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Going to do it again. House doesn't really need it, but I'd like to see what happens when it's not miserable outside. It's still pretty humid until the sun comes out tomorrow, but it's hardly noticeable in the house when the temperature is in the 70's.
House is was 77 on the second floor when I started. 71 degrees outside, feels like 71. Low tonight is 67 degrees. Humidity currently 81%, with a high of 82% tonight, dipping into the 50's by tomorrow mid-day. Attic was pretty cool since it rained hard the first half of the day and didn't get sunlight until the afternoon, filtered through the trees.
8:30PM: 77 on thermostat. 71 outside, feels like 71.
8:35PM: 76 on thermostat. 71 outside, feels like 71.
Strange that it seems to almost always drop that first single degree within 10 minutes but it's a long time before a second one....
10:30PM 75 on thermostat. 70 outside, feels like 70.
12:00PM: 74 on thermostat. 69 outside, feels like 69.
It seems that everything being cooler doesn't make this process work any quicker than when it's hot. Either that, or the system as is will never have the time necessary to get the inside temp within 3 or so degrees of the outside temp.
Outside temp will be 68 between 3AM and 7AM. I'm expecting 72 degrees when I wake up, but maybe I'll luck out and see 71 or even 70 since there are 4 hours at the low instead of only 1 hour like the last few nights.
None of this is really necessary since it is quite comfortable in the house at 77 degrees. Really nice to get it lower and feel that breeze everywhere though.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I wish DVDs used close captioning.
Some do.
Did you try it through your TV settings?
You control the Subtitles through the DVD menus. You control the Closed Captioning through your TV set.
BluRay does not support closed captioning at all though.
EDIT:
Oh... BTW. How is your DVD player connected to your TV set? If you are using an HDMI cable for the connection, the TV won't display any Closed Captioning that is on the Disc. You have to use the old Component/Composite cable for CC to work.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I did try once to use the Close Captioning through the tv for a DVD. It didn't work.
Someone else mentioned to me the subtitles and that is what I will have to use once in a while.
My DVD and VHS both go through a HD box from my cable company. My tv is old.
I have used CC on the tv a couple of times when I've found that I wasn't catching all the words. I just told the remote for the HD box : CC on.
I kinda like talking to the remote.
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Well if you're using the DVD through some "HD Box" and that box is connected to the TV through an HDMI cable, it's still going to get lost in the mix. HDMI cables were not made with the capability for transmitting that info no matter what the source is from.
Not all DVDs use the technology and some just have subtitles. The Closed Captioning is stored as a separate data stream that can be used by any TV that's set up to display it (most TVs, at least in the US, had to do it some time in the 80's and beyond). Subtitles aren't data. They're transparent images that are laid on top of the movie.
I saw a youtube video on how all of that worked. It was pretty fascinating.
Pretty lame that the US government didn't force BluRay and HDMI cable manufacturers to use the tech. I don't know how that happened. Without the US forcing that standard going forward, it's unlikely anybody else is going to either.
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I found the video on it.
This guy has a lot of great stuff.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Well if you're using the DVD through some "HD Box" and that box is connected to the TV through an HDMI cable, it's still going to get lost in the mix. HDMI cables were not made with the capability for transmitting that info no matter what the source is from.
Not all DVDs use the technology and some just have subtitles. The Closed Captioning is stored as a separate data stream that can be used by any TV that's set up to display it (most TVs, at least in the US, had to do it some time in the 80's and beyond). Subtitles aren't data. They're transparent images that are laid on top of the movie.
I saw a youtube video on how all of that worked. It was pretty fascinating.
Pretty lame that the US government didn't force BluRay and HDMI cable manufacturers to use the tech. I don't know how that happened. Without the US forcing that standard going forward, it's unlikely anybody else is going to either.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
"HD" just stands for High Definition. Makes everything brighter and clearer and it is through my cable company. And since you really need cable these days to watch anything on tv.
Most tvs in Canada are set up for close captioning as well.
I get that about sub-titles.
I'll watch the video later. Got things to do today. But thanks for the info.
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No problem.
I really can't figure out why they didn't enforce the closed captioning on the new technology though. Subtitles are nice, but they aren't the end-all-be-all solution and they could never replace closed captioning.
As long as people are watching things like the news and sports on HD streams that are transmitted to their TV via antenna, they will be able to use closed captioning. But if they're getting any HD media through any device that connects to the TV with an HDMI cable this info won't be present, even if the original media had it.
Not a problem with movies and TV show collections that have subtitles (although you do sometimes lose some non-dialogue info that CC usually displays, depending on who made the subs). But any live broadcasts rely on somebody who can type lightning fast to put the words on the screen as they're spoken. Well... maybe that's all automated now too, but people used to do that. But the fact is that the hearing impared are being left behind with the new technology.
I think at some point it will be revisited in the US legal system and manufacturers will be forced to do this once again. I don't see how that doesn't happen in the future. But of course, if you want to use it at that point it will require you to upgrade your tech once again. Not something that everybody will be forced to do since most people can go without CC, especially since there are subtitles on most BluRays if they really want them.
But people like you that want it are going to probably have to buy a new and pricier HDMI cable for any device hooked to your TV(s) and you might even have to buy a new BluRay player. Although with how "smart" devices are today, you might just need to buy the cable. It's probable that the devices themselves can pretty easily be upgraded through software to use CC as long as they're connectable to the internet. If that happens, it would be likely that any of the major players with a US presence like Sony and Magnavox would upgrade all of their previous devices when forced to by law. However, anybody who's rocking some Made in China shit-boxes that they bought on Wish.com are probably going to be out of luck.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
No problem.
I really can't figure out why they didn't enforce the closed captioning on the new technology though. Subtitles are nice, but they aren't the end-all-be-all solution and they could never replace closed captioning.
As long as people are watching things like the news and sports on HD streams that are transmitted to their TV via antenna, they will be able to use closed captioning. But if they're getting any HD media through any device that connects to the TV with an HDMI cable this info won't be present, even if the original media had it.
Not a problem with movies and TV show collections that have subtitles (although you do sometimes lose some non-dialogue info that CC usually displays, depending on who made the subs). But any live broadcasts rely on somebody who can type lightning fast to put the words on the screen as they're spoken. Well... maybe that's all automated now too, but people used to do that. But the fact is that the hearing impared are being left behind with the new technology.
I think at some point it will be revisited in the US legal system and manufacturers will be forced to do this once again. I don't see how that doesn't happen in the future. But of course, if you want to use it at that point it will require you to upgrade your tech once again. Not something that everybody will be forced to do since most people can go without CC, especially since there are subtitles on most BluRays if they really want them.
But people like you that want it are going to probably have to buy a new and pricier HDMI cable for any device hooked to your TV(s) and you might even have to buy a new BluRay player. Although with how "smart" devices are today, you might just need to buy the cable. It's probable that the devices themselves can pretty easily be upgraded through software to use CC as long as they're connectable to the internet. If that happens, it would be likely that any of the major players with a US presence like Sony and Magnavox would upgrade all of their previous devices when forced to by law. However, anybody who's rocking some Made in China shit-boxes that they bought on Wish.com are probably going to be out of luck.
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That video was interesting. I would have to do some research about close captioning in Canada. But I think it came in around the same time as the US.
I don't bother with the close captioning on YouTube for what I listen too. I can hear well enough for that.
I only use it on the tv every so often and now on DVDs. So, yeah. It is subtitles for me when I am having that problems with my hearing not cooperating. Which is what happened last night.
Had a DVD from the library a couple of weeks ago and turned on the set-up, and hit the DV(Descriptive video) line. That drove me buggy as it ruined what I was watching with describing everything. It was my own fault and I was curious. I now know not to touch that one.
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Yeah. I can't sit and binge watch the guy, but when I'm in the mood for it he makes a lot of great videos explaining how a lot of tech works, and does a great job dumbing it down enough for the rest of us.
I'm pretty sure that whenever the US actually passed those laws for TV sets that the ones you were getting in Canada were compliant as well. It's not as true as it was in the 80's and 90's, but America kind of dictates how the rest of the world gets stuff when laws like these are passed because such a large percentage of the purchases are made here. Once you've got your assembly line up and running, it's actually more expensive to make half of your TVs without the ability (parts and labor) than it is to just make them all conform to the standard, since you only need one line per process instead of two separate lines or alternating which ones get made and taking the time to keep going back and forth between setups.
The only time this never really was the case was with the NTSC vs PAL format because they were designed with the different electricity connections we have in different regions of the world (110v service vs 220v service). North America as well as Japan use NTSC (for 110 volt service), while most of Europe uses PAL (for 220 volt service). In that case, they absolutely had to make two separate TV sets for the different regions unless somebody and redid the entire electrical grid.
That's really quite fascinating too. I've known about that for quite a while, but the same guy has a video about that as well and he did a great job explaining it.
Because of the different formats, anything from TV shows to video games run slightly slower in Europe than then do in the US/Canada/Mexico/Japan.
I remember my brother telling me about a bunch of people he knew getting together to watch a Firefly marathon, and some of them were in Europe and they were all talking to each other remotely while it was on.
It didn't take long for somebody to realize that the ones watching it in Europe were starting to fall behind.
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So I think that it's just impossible to ever expect to have the same temperature inside and out overnight without some external cooling source.
Though it's disappointing, I'd imagine the science behind it makes sense. I'd imagine that no matter what I do, there is residual heat behind the walls that will constantly radiate outward even as the air inside cools down to close to the outside temperature. And that's just a frame house with vinyl siding. I'd guess that cooling the entire house with a single fan would be a much harder thing to accomplish if it were a brick oven.
Have to take into account the fact that I'm here generating my 98 degrees every second I'm in the house too. Any fans, TVs and lights are also putting off a bit of heat. That refrigerator is always a constant source of heat as well.
So I never got it down to below 72 by the morning. Left the windows open all day. The high was 73. It was 73 inside at 8:45 when I turned the fan on, 67 outside. It is supposed to get down to 61 tonight, but not for long. I'll be expecting 66 on the thermostat when I turn it off.
High will be 80 with a low of 63 tomorrow. I'll be closing the windows in the morning. It will feel like I've got A/C on in here. :)
EDIT: Wow. Immediate 2 degree cooling tonight in only 15 minutes, down to 71. I'm thinking that's because it was already 6 degrees difference by 8:30. 4 degrees seems to be the magic number for variance inside and outside of the house.
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