Do you watch TV with closed caption?

[SeeDisney]

I've been doing this for years now and I my kids too watch their shows with closed caption.

I find that I have better comprehsion of a movie with the CC and my kids, I feel, may improve on their spelling and possible grammar too.

I find it hard to NOT watch a television CC now. Also, most of my friends don't watch it with CC.

Anyone else out there watches CC but is not hard of hearing?

Just so curious.

 

[tiggersmom2]

I do. I like to watch movies late at night when my youngest son is asleep. I just turn the volume way down and read the CC.

 

[NMAmy]

No, I hate it when the CC is on AND the sound is on, as well. It distracts me--particularly when the CC is running behind the commentary. That happened a lot when I went to the gym and they'd have the news or a sports broadcast on.

 

[helenabear]

Nope, CC distracts me greatly. I don't read all that well (dyslexic) and I feel like I miss out by concentrating so hard on what is on TV in text. I also don't like movies with subtitles for that reason alone!

 

[Nite0wl71]

I do

I started because I stayed up late and I would turn the TV down, I couldn't hear so I began using the CC.

I am so used to watching it now when a show doesn't have it I keep checking to see if someone turned off the CC.

Everybody in my house hates it they don't understand how I can watch and read.

 

[trip]

I don't because I'm usually doing 2-3 other things while "watching" tv.

 

[The LK 4]

LOL - I thought I was the only one who does this! I use CC when I'm watching TV in the evening so I don't have to have the volume up too loud.

I also like to watch movies with CC because I find that I miss too much of the dialogue if I just listen.

 

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

I find that I have better comprehsion of a movie with the CC and my kids, I feel, may improve on their spelling and possible grammar too.

Have you not noticed the misspellings on some CC? I forget what I was watching with the CC turned on, but the spelling was so terrible that I turned it off. I don't know if the transcriber didn't have a script to follow but it was bad. I noticed with live programs, like some news and home shopping, that the CC writer couldn't necessarily understand the words spoken because a completely different word was written (sound was still on).

I do

I started because I stayed up late and I would turn the TV down, I couldn't hear so I began using the CC.

I was doing this for a while over the summer because the TV volume would get turned up to compensate for the noise of the A/C unit. DD uses the CC on her tv all the time to keep the volume down.

 

[crcormier]

Sometimes, if I'm on the phone, or if someone is staying over and I don't want to disturb them, or if I'm watching a movie or TV in bed and know I'll fall asleep so want to keep the volume down. This is also great for the gym if you don't have a personal screen TV cause sometimes it's hard to hear. Though have you ever watched the news, when they have to do it live? It's very funny sometimes.

 

[2sweetangels]

I do

I started because I stayed up late and I would turn the TV down, I couldn't hear so I began using the CC.

I am so used to watching it now when a show doesn't have it I keep checking to see if someone turned off the CC.

Everybody in my house hates it they don't understand how I can watch and read.

your just wierd mom, LOL love you though

 

[flminivanmama]

 

[poohandwendy]

Yes, I do. But I have some hearing loss and I get too frustrated watching a program without it. (especially action movies, the action is loud and the voices are soft) Glad to *hear* I am not the only hearing person using CC.

 

[florida-again]

Meeeee! I have to turn them on! I'm so glad it's not just me.
It drives everyone else CRAZY

 

[jenny2]

I only use it while watching LOST... so I don't miss anything!

 

[malibuconlee]

Dh's sister does, but she is hearing impaired.

We bought DH's parents a new TV several years ago. She didn't live there, but was bummed when she found out it didn't have closed captioning. I honestly didn't think about it at the time. I just wanted to buy them a new tv because theirs broke and they were using a tiny one in the living room.

 

[Pop Daddy]

only if its an old silent movie

 

[oogieboogie]

I've used CC for ages. I grew up in Indonesia and we get a lot of HongKong movies and they're always in mandarin. The only way to understand what's going on in the movie is to read the subtitles, so CC is nothing new to me.

When I had kids, it was even more important for me to watch with CC because with the amount of noise the kids make, sometimes I can't even hear what's going on, muting the TV and putting the CC on lets me still follow the story. Plus, sometimes the kids'll be asleep in my room and I just want to lay down and watch TV - again CC comes to the rescue.

Another thing I like about CC is when the movie/TV show is sci-fi/fantasy and there are so many weird names and places that I would have never understood without CC. That and when the characters are whispering, sometimes you just can't hear those things - for instance when Lost is on and the guys hear whispers in the forest, I can't hear the whispers on my TV, but I know it's there because of the CC.

 

[mommystieg]

I do --with three kids running around it's too hard to hear the TV and I usually have to watch TV with one eye while the other eye is watching the baby so using CC helps me kinda keep up with what is going on.....

 

[SeeDisney]

I liked reading everyone's posts....


I watched the Fugitive with Harrison Ford a couple of weeks ago with the CC and I completely understood the movie with such detail as I never never did before without CC.

Instense Blue == yes, I noticed espec. if it's a live show the spellings are terrible, but for most of my kid's cartoons and Little House on Prairie, it's accurate spelling.

 

[dhcoffey]

For a lot of live shows and news coverage, there will be a court reporter doing captioning for them and if it's a new word to them or an unusual word, it may not be in their dictionary which will cause it to come up funny sometimes. Oftentimes on breaks, they can fix it and it will be right from then on out.