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Why do UK TV shows on DVD have no subtitles/closed captioning?
UK films on DVD usually do have subtitles/closed captioning.
Is this lack on TV shows due to some logistics, or are they just not big on subtitles/CC on TV in the UK?
Additional details by Sean B.:
"The UK Oracle service's closed captions aren't compatible with USA/Canada captioning (captioning has to be done separately using the program scripts as a guide at separate facilities i.e. WGBH Boston's Caption Center or the National Captioning Institute or a local station having such facilities in-house). In order for a British TV show to have captioning on these shores, the script and a copy of the episode have to sent to a captioning facility where the work is done and recorded onto the videotape master as an embedded signal. "
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- ?Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
It's a logistics issue more than anything else. Television series are aired with closed captioning but the system there requires the use of the Oracle teletext service (a system where text is broadcast to viewers such as news; UK TV promos often have the number "888" to alert viewers to set their sets for the captions).
The US and Canada broadcast closed captioning with their TV shows directly (as the captioning is often done at the station itself for news programming or mastered onto the broadcast tapes of network and syndicated programming)
