HDMI has no support for old-school closed captioning. Blu-Ray discs deal with this by having English subtitles. Many DVDs do as well. However, many DVDs, especially of TV shows, especially British TV shows, just have old-school closed captioning encoded in the NTSC signal.
That's not really right, I think. DVDs in every case carry the subtitles/closed-captions digitally, outside the video stream. Your DVD
player muxes them into the NTSC output. Does your BD player not do so?
So I really want to find a Blu-Ray player that has a closed captioning decoder built in. This information is even harder to find than you'd think.
One reason that could possibly occur, is if in fact
all BD players can do it. Are you certain that's not the case? (Admittedly the makers of the BD player would have to go out of their way to do that, and include a rasteriser and a font, but surely the consumer expectation is that a BD player is a strict superset of a DVD player?)
Peter
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