Closed Captions

To turn closed captioning on or off

1. On the start screen, scroll to Tasks, click settings, click TV or DVD, and then click Closed Captioning. In some regions, you may need to select Subtitles instead of Closed Captioning.

Like I said, I have no "Closed Captioning" option under the DVD menu. I do have "Subtitles," and it's "On." I do have a "Closed Captioning" option under the TV menu, though I guess that's irrelevant--is it not? At any rate, should it make any difference, the "Closed Captioning" is "On" as well.

If you have an analog TV signal and you want to turn on closed captioning,

I have no TV signal, I have no TV tuner.

Under Basic Captioning, click CC1.

I have no "Basic Captioning" option there or anywhere else. And it shouldn't make a difference anyway, as my issue is with DVD, not TV.

Thank you for your input though.

Please provide your hardware specs and list any other (DVD) software in use as this can be helpful in troubleshoting your issue.

I don't think that would help much, but here goes: dual socket Woodcrest Xeon (4 cores) @ 2.33, 8Gs of RAM on a Tyan S2696 mobo, nVidia 7900GT videocard, Raptor RAID, dual monitor. No other DVD software (is AnyDVD considered DVD software?).

What are you using to play those DVD's? In your profile could you please find and fill out the hardware information section as accurately as possible? This data appears in each post at the system information link in the lower left and is very helpful.

Have you checked for a firmware update for your DVD drive?

Hardware's got nothing to do with it. I tried that DVD on several other Win7 computers with the same result. As a matter of fact, as far as I recall, I have never been able to display CCs in WMC, be it Win7, Vista or whatnot, regardless of the computer I used. Up until now I thought that there's some setting that I just couldn't find, but now I am starting to think that it's just WMC: I think Microsoft has just neglected the possibility that one might want to display CCs for DVDs, given that most DVDs out there have subtitles. Well, there are many DVDs out there (esp TV shows) that don't have subtitles, but only CCs.

Can't believe that I'm the first one that noticed this! Have you ever managed to display CCs in WMC? (And by CC I mean Closed Captions, not subtitles!)

Given that closed captions display just fine in WMP, it is clearly an oversight on MS's part that they have simply forgot to provide a CC option for DVDs in WMC. Just in case you happen to be able to bring this to their attention, I'd appreciate if you did. I shouldn't take a huge coding effort to fix this.

Many thanks.

I can confirm that this was an awesome feature that Microsoft decided to remove, Not sure if it was in error or not but many other forums state this and microsoft never said anything about it.

Windows XP Media center version 2005 had closed captions for DVDs.
Windows Vista Media center had closed caption for DVDs.
MCE TV pack 2008 and later if installed on Windows XP MCE 2005, removes the options for closed captions on DVDs.
Same with vista.
Windows 7 MCE has the TV pack integrated. So under windows 7 MCE there is no option for closed captions for DVDs.

Shame on microsoft for removing this feature. Nice of them to show that they support the deaf and hearing inpaired, NOT.