[mythtv] Ticket #11899: Garbled CCs on some stations

[faginbagin]

On 10/17/2013 2:05 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> wasn't the 608 format dropped not long ago?
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What was dropped was CEA-608 *Teletext* captions, which I think is an obsolete captioning method once used outside of North America. In North America, CEA-608 *Closed* captions are still widely used. It would be a really unpopular idea to drop support for CEA-608 Closed captions.

Regards,
Helen