07.18.04

Why I watch the captions

Posted in General at 10 am

It’s a bit annoying for others in the room, but I enjoy watching TV with the closed captioning on.

First off, I do seem to have a bit of a problem hearing things clearly. It’s difficult for me to pick out spoken words when there’s a lot of background noise like the two box fans we’ve had on during the nights, plus I’m easily distrac- Ooh! Shiny thing over in the corner!…

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As I was saying, I enjoy watching the captions because sometime you get more information that way. For instance just last night some commercial was on with captioning and it said “Techno Mix of the Saber Dance”. I had no idea what piece of music was called the Saber Dance, so I proceeded to hop on over to my Mac and brought up this work that is obviously famous enough to be referred to simply by it’s title.

Now of course, just after the first few bars of the piece it becomes very obvious what it is. But like many symphonic, non-vocal pieces that people may not know the name of: Flight of the Bumblebee, or Beethoven’s Ninth, or Rhapsody In Blue, it difficult to find out about these pieces on the Net unless you have a specific word or phrase you can use to hook into the piece’s digital net.trail.

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