Subj : #1
To   : August Abolins
From : George Pope
Date : Tue Jan 31 2023 06:58:58

>> That only works if you also disable the volume!
> On that tv (and on mine as well), enabling CC automatically
> mutes the speaker.

How do you run it so both hearing and non-hearing can enjoy it at the same  time?

I still recall getting a new cable digital box & wondering why someone was  describing the stuff I was looking right at -- then realized it has a control  for the blind who want to /watch/, get this. . teleVISION.

I killed that in a hurry, as it was annoying me, but I must have the CC on  nowadays, & don't like when watching TV I've downloaded, trying to follow the  story without hearing everything -- Hollyweird loves to have people whisper for effect, but these actors today learned on sets, not on stage, so don't know how to project a whisper properly.

>> One old lady was watching the news on their new TV, on which she had
>> accidentally clicked on the mute button. . .
>> Her hubby walked in, saw the new anchor's lips moving & the word "Mute"
>> at the  bottom of the screen & remarked, "My, how those disabled news
>> folk try hard!"
> That could qualify to be a Gary Larson cartoon if that could be
> emulated.

I might've read it in a cartoon, actually. A two-panel one, though, IIRC, & I  likely don't (IIRCAIPD as a new TLA?)

Q: What do you call Minecraft on Mute? A: Mimecraft

First rule of ôMute Club:ö
Nobody talks about ôMute Clubö

Yesterday, I found out I was mute!
I can't tell you how angry this makes me!

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