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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows
« on: April 30, 2023, 05:52:08 PM »Briefly referring back to Reply #580, a few people have asked why, now that I have new video capturing hardware/software, I used screen captures in that post from the video I'd shot off of a TV screen rather than capturing new video? Well, sadly the answer is simple: as hard as I tried, I couldn't come across any sort of video player software that seems to display closed captions embedded in a VHS tape or video capturing software that records closed captioning embedded in a VHS tape along with recording the video. If my failure to find any of that is any indication, apparently closed captioning on VHS tapes only displays on TVs that support closed captioning...
Well, guess what - all of that is no longer the case. While I was cleaning out a closet to get rid of some things I came across an old VHS/DVD player/recorder that I'd completely forgotten about because I haven't used it since the fall of 2010 because it recorded TV programs to VHS or DVD (I'd used rewritable ones) and not a hard drive and back then I'd gotten a DVR that recorded to a hard drive, which is a hell of a lot more convenient, not to mention efficient. After I rediscovered it, I wondered if it was possible to make videos with it of the closed captioning on VHS tapes, and lo and behold, when I experimented recording NoDS, the closed captioning did indeed display on the recording. So, I'm in the process of making a video of the NoDS VHS with closed captioning playing and not only will I be posting all future closed captioning screen captures using that video, but I'll be replacing all the screen captures I've already posted.
Why does closed captioning record from the player I rediscovered and not with any other one I'd experimented with in the past? Who knows? But it's better late than never to learn what I have. It works and that's all that matters.