There are over 20 million people in the United States classified as deaf or hard of hearing. The closed-captioning system opens up the world of television and home video to this audience. The system encodes the dialogue of the program as a hidden digital signal.
Encoding is the process of inserting the caption data onto a video tape, DVD or laser disc.
There are over 50 encoding facilities throughout North America capable of creating captioned masters. Major movie studios know it takes both. Then we add our exclusive electronic spell-checking for every language we translate. This proprietary software makes sure that even in a 200-page script not one misspelled word or misplaced accent remains undetected. That's what it takes to generate the highest quality subtitles.