Television – Digital TV

Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons

• Some broadcast, cable and satellite networks

are not captioning their DTV feeds

• Sometimes captions are stripped or not re-encoded

for digital broadcasts

• Some older cable boxes can't decode captions

• Some caption displays must be activated through

HD/digital cable box

• Purchasing and hooking up a DTV is a repeat of the

challenges in early days of TV captioning.