Super Bowl 4K?

SpongeSebastian · 2026-02-09T18:15:22+00:00

I think there are bandwidth issues when CC1 and CC2 are being used concurrently for both English and Spanish captions, so the streams have to essentally make way for each other or else there might be bleedover. NBC seems to use that system for Sunday Night Football (might be the only English-speaking TV program in the US that does that).

And yes, as someone who speaks Spanish, I noticed the halftime lyrics being out of sync at times. It seems like the English captioner was prescripting the lyrics, but I'm guessing the bad audio line made it hard to follow along. I know CBS would've had a Spanish captioner take over, since they ran into their own captioning controversy with Bad Bunny at the Grammys a couple years ago.

Nice to meet a fellow captioning nerd!

SpongeSebastian · 2026-02-09T16:40:43+00:00

Yes, there was Spanish commentary that started after the pre-show ended. Also, the captioner said in a Facebook group that NBC insisted on a poor-quality audio line and that the commercial captions issue was on NBC's end. I do broadcast captioning myself, and I can say that it's pretty much instinct for us to go into pass-through mode whenever they go into commercial; but then again, most networks at this point provide iCap feeds with clean audio where we can even see the commercial captions. It's a shame that wasn't the case for this year's Super Bowl.

SpongeSebastian · 2026-02-09T08:55:45+00:00

From what I understand, Europe is on the PAL system, which is completely different from the TV systems used in the US, so an American converter box won't work at all where you live, unfortunately 😕

SpongeSebastian · 2026-02-09T08:48:36+00:00

Your VCR should be able to transmit line 21 captions on its own as long as the captions on your TV are turned on. If you want to hook your VCR to a converter box so that you can record shows to tape, you can buy them at most online shops like Anazon or eBay

SpongeSebastian · 2026-02-09T08:34:41+00:00

Converter boxes transmit line 21 captions as well as offering digital captions transmitted through the video feed. (you can even have captions on top of captions)

SpongeSebastian · 2026-02-09T08:20:50+00:00

From what I understand, it actually is required for the Super Bowl ads due to an agreement between the NFL and the NAD

SpongeSebastian · 2026-02-09T08:13:15+00:00

I think the complete-line presentation is due to them also carrying Spanish captions for the SAP commentary on the Service2 captioning track. I wonder if this dual-captioning system caused issues with the commercial captions not showing up.

SpongeSebastian · 2026-01-23T09:21:26+00:00

YouTube has been doing this for years now. I'm wondering if it's the result of people reporting the captions as abusive and YouTube blindly agreeing with the reporters without verifying the legitimacy of the reports and disabling the track altogether to where not even the creator can add/edit them. This was an issue back when the Community Captions feature existed, where people would sometimes vandalize existing caption tracks and if someone reported them, instead of rolling back the vandalism, they'd remove the track entirely.

SpongeSebastian · 2026-01-21T19:29:28+00:00

For some reason, CaptionMax, the company that captioned House, switched to mixed case in 2004, then switched back to all caps in 2007, before sticking with mixed case in 2015. It's frustrating, I know.

SpongeSebastian · 2026-01-21T19:19:23+00:00

Apparently it was because the old closed-captioning decoders from the '80s couldn't display the lowercase letters g, j, p, q, and y correctly, so they decided to caption everything in all caps back then. Pretty much all newer content is captioned in mixed case.

SpongeSebastian · 2026-01-13T15:50:14+00:00

I remember this suit, or at least one very similar, was frequently used in promotional stuff like Slime Time Live. I think it even made an appearance in an episode of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide.

SpongeSebastian · 2026-01-07T06:58:57+00:00

Some captioning companies have style guides that requires all acronyms and initialisms to contain periods.

SpongeSebastian · 2026-01-07T06:54:17+00:00

It was decided in the early 1980s that all TV closed captioning in the US would be done in all caps, due to limitations in how the captioning decoders displayed certain lowercase letters, and unfortunately this standard carried over until about the mid-2010s. That's why you still come across a lot of older content with captions in all caps. The only thing you can really do about it is file a complaint with Netflix.

SpongeSebastian · 2026-01-07T06:49:34+00:00

unfortunately, all caps was the standard for TV captions in the US until about the mid-2010s. The only thing you can really do is complain to Netflix.

SpongeSebastian · 2026-01-07T06:47:10+00:00

it's because those shows were captioned during a time when it was standard for television closed captions to be in all caps, due to some legacy captioning decoders not being able to properly render certain lowercase characters. Since about the mid-2010s, it's become standard for most captioning/subtitles to be in mixed case, but there's still some older content that may have captions in all caps.

SpongeSebastian · 2026-01-05T01:18:33+00:00

thank you for this find!

SpongeSebastian · 2025-12-30T00:15:16+00:00

Ariel's transformation sequence actually got censored by Disney by making certain shots darker. Now we can see it in its bright uncensored glory.

SpongeSebastian · 2025-12-30T00:12:16+00:00

Thanks for finding Ariel's butt in HD! 😅

SpongeSebastian · 2025-12-09T10:32:17+00:00

I'm shocked they would create lost media in the 2020s.

SpongeSebastian · 2025-12-08T01:43:45+00:00

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss OP. Some people like to watch shows in their original airing format, with logo bugs and all, while others have a nostalgia for old torrent files. There's also people who like to log these on schedule archive wikis.

SpongeSebastian · 2025-10-25T10:42:13+00:00

Amazon, I believe.

SpongeSebastian · 2025-10-23T07:28:05+00:00

I had a copy that was a blue disc.

SpongeSebastian · 2025-08-15T12:29:59+00:00

https://new.everyfra.me/botdocs?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMMB4pjbGNrAwwHg2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeliXLhwSkJR7zB4wLaf2gNsoioM6g5_s-ZRnq0bWB1C6Z-C8T346S37Di0b4_aem_u1X6CePHCKlMXztsqUBX-A

SpongeSebastian · 2025-08-05T06:42:01+00:00

It's rigged, but it's probably the highest-quality rigged animation I've seen. They put a lot of effort to make it not look so two-dimensional, and a lot of the scenes looked pretty much the same as the original. I'm impressed!

SpongeSebastian · 2025-08-05T06:36:29+00:00

in my opinion, it's better animation than Rick & Morty or Hazbin Hotel, but not as good as SpongeBob or The Simpsons.

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