Since then, captions have been opened to the world of television to people who are deaf and hard-of-hearing. More than 2,000 hours of entertainment, news, and sports programming are captioned each week on public and cable television. Captions are no longer a novelty, instead they have become a necessity. There are two types of captions and they may be open or closed. First off, closed captions are where viewers need a television with built-in decoder system. Open captions appear on all televisions and it can be viewed without a
Since then, captions have been opened to the world of television to people who are deaf and hard-of-hearing. More than 2,000 hours of entertainment, news, and sports programming are captioned each week on public and cable television. Captions are no longer a novelty, instead they have become a necessity. There are two types of captions and they may be open or closed. First off, closed captions are where viewers need a television with built-in decoder system. Open captions appear on all televisions and it can be viewed without a