I don't know about anyone else, but, anymore, I can't watch TV, not including sports, without closed captioning. I guess I just can't hear well enough in my old age to enjoy TV without it. That's one of the reasons I rarely do one of my favorite activities anymore -- going to the movies.
Anyway, I was watching a new series called High Potential with Kaitlin Olson. They had closed captioning, but it was about 15 minutes behind the action on the screen. When High Potential came on, the closed captioning was doing commercials from the previous program, Dancing With the Stars, then after those were over, the dancers moving on in the competition were announced. It wasn't until the commercial break in High Potential that the closed captioning started in on the opening scenes of the show I was watching. I've seen closed captioning delayed by a couple of seconds, but never by 15 minutes.
I don't use it for sports because I find it gets in the way of the action and covers up the onscreen scoreboard or the graphics, and I really have little interest in what the announcers are saying anyway. If they did happen to say something interesting that I didn't catch all of, I can always turn on closed captioning and rewind the show to the spot I missed. Sports is one of those programs where the closed captioning lags behind the action by a couple of seconds anyway, so I'm really not missing much.
Anyway, I was watching a new series called High Potential with Kaitlin Olson. They had closed captioning, but it was about 15 minutes behind the action on the screen. When High Potential came on, the closed captioning was doing commercials from the previous program, Dancing With the Stars, then after those were over, the dancers moving on in the competition were announced. It wasn't until the commercial break in High Potential that the closed captioning started in on the opening scenes of the show I was watching. I've seen closed captioning delayed by a couple of seconds, but never by 15 minutes.
I don't use it for sports because I find it gets in the way of the action and covers up the onscreen scoreboard or the graphics, and I really have little interest in what the announcers are saying anyway. If they did happen to say something interesting that I didn't catch all of, I can always turn on closed captioning and rewind the show to the spot I missed. Sports is one of those programs where the closed captioning lags behind the action by a couple of seconds anyway, so I'm really not missing much.
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