PStecker said:
Actually, it does turn it off. When I look at the TV menu under "captioning" it is greyed out. If I switch it to S-Video, or Composite (not component), it turns on to where I can turn it on/off. I have a DVD Player that is hooked up to the component input and it works just fine. I have always relied on the TV for captioning since I am used to the font (and I like it). It is proportional (unlike that the 811 uses).
I believe what you are looking at with DVD is not captions, it is subtitles. That's a different beast, as far as I know.
For the most part, captions are a data stream embedded in the tv signal (during the vertical blanking interval) that is decoded by the TV, which then generates the text to display.
Subtitles are embedded in the data on a DVD, but the DVD player sends them to the TV as part of the actual image itself, and not as data to be decoded.
That's why they work over a component input. I believe that the 811 works in a similar fashion, it reads the CC data from the data stream, then generates the CC text are part of the actual image that it sends to the TV.
Again, that's just my understanding of how things work. This being the internet, if I'm wrong, there will be plenty of people to correct it
