‘Open’ captions are not hidden from the normal picture, and cannot be turned off. ‘Closed’ captioning is hidden from the normal TV picture and requires a Teletext decoder to view.

There are two types of captioning: closed and open. On television and in videosĬaptioning television programs allows the soundtrack of a television broadcast to be displayed as text on the screen. The screen can be positioned directly in front of the movie patron. The CaptiView system consists of a small display screen on a bendable support arm that fits into the theatre seat cup holder. Captioning in cinemasĬaptiView is a device that presents captions to individual movie goers. You may see the ‘CC’ symbol for closed captions or the ‘OC’ symbol for open captions on TV program guides, DVDs and accessible cinema session guides.Ĭaptioning differs from ‘subtitling’, which is the translation into another language, presented as text on screen.Ĭaptions are particularly useful for people who are Deaf or hearing impaired, as well as those who are viewing content in a noisy environment, teaching or training and who are learning English. Captioning is the text version of speech and other sounds that can be provided on television, DVDs, videos on the internet, cinemas, theatres and public places like museums.Ĭaptions are either selected as desired (closed captions), usually by turning the captions function on or off, or they are included so that they automatically appear on a screen (open captions).

Closed captioning meaning