"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>>> On 1/24/2016 4:24 PM, Phil wrote:
>>>> It would have to be really old not to have caption capability, but you
>>>> do have to go to set-up features in your TV to turn them on and off,
>>>> usually the remote has the feature, but not always. Refer to your TV
>>>> manual, but if not having it you can find it online.
>>>>
>>>> Cheri
>>>
>>> I have a TV so old you can still turn it on and off using buttons on the
>>> front of the actual set. You can change the channels and adjust the
>>> volume by pushing buttons on the set, too. There is a set-up/menu
>>> button on the equally old remote which allows you to enable closed
>>> captioning, set a sleep timer, things like that.
>>>
>>> You don't have to disable the sound to see closed captions. If you
>>> don't want to hear the sound, mute it. For some reason she wants to
>>> hear it, even though she doesn't like Pati's voice. Okay. But she
>>> likely could turn on closed captions if she wanted to.
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>> I have to hear it because I need to know what she is doing. I would
>> never use closed captioning even if I did have it. For one thing, I
>> can't see well enough without my glasses on to see words on the screen.
>> And I rarely wear my glasses at home. For another, I rarely really watch
>> any show. I have the TV on and I listen to it, only looking at the
>> screen once in a while.
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> OK, but not using it is much different from not having it.

Well, I don't have it as in it is not on my TV. If it is available to put
on there, I wouldn't know how to get it and I wouldn't bother to look it up
because I wouldn't use it.