My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by dmonitor on Monday June 02, 2025 @05:24PM (#44163198)

Old TV series should have closed captions available (which are apparently different from subtitles), however the question of where to obtain aside from VHS copies them might be difficult.

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Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by worble on Monday June 02, 2025 @06:25PM (#44163846)

And of course, a lot of modern "dvd players" do not properly transmit closed captions as subtitles over HDMI, so that sure isn't helping

A slightly off topic but interesting video about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSCOQ6vnLwU

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Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by anotherevan on Monday June 02, 2025 @06:36PM (#44163960)

Many DVDs of old movies and TV shows may contain the closed captions, but they are not visible through HDMI. You have to connect your DVD player to your TV via the composite video analogue outputs.

This video explains all about it: https://youtu.be/OSCOQ6vnLwU

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Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts by crtasm on Monday June 02, 2025 @07:59PM (#44164711)

Yes they need to be "burned in" to the picture to work with HDMI (he shows a couple of bluray players towards the end that do this. there's also some models mentioned in the comments)

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