Closed captioning on Optik TV

Turn captioning on or off and learn how to change settings

Turn closed captioning on

Turn closed captioning off

Customize closed captioning settings

You can change closed captioning text sizes, colours, styles and background colours.

Choose from 3 text sizes
Choose from 8 colours
Choose opaque or semi-transparent lettering
Select text styles
Select background colours

Press
Menu
Select
Settings
Select
Television
Select
Closed Captioning
Select
Digital Closed Captioning
Ensure
Digital closed captions
is
On
Select the options you want to change
Under
Digital closed captioning
ensure
Closed caption 1
is selected. Under
Text Settings
you can change:
- Size: Larger, Normal, Smaller
- Colour: Black, White, Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Magenta, Cyan
- Opacity: Opaque, Semi-Transparent
- Edge Style: None, Raised, Depressed, Uniform, Drop Shadowed
- Under the
  Background
  and
  Panel
  settings you can change the colour and opacity of the background screen and closed captioning frame
Select
Save
and press
OK

Note
: If a program you expect to have closed captioning does not have closed captioning try this solution.

Go to
Menu
Select
Settings
Select
Television
Select
Closed captioning
Set
Digital closed captioning
to
Off
Set
Standard closed captioning
to
On
You should also select
Closed captioning 1

Note
:

You will lose any customized changes like colour or font size changes when you do this temporarily
Reverse these steps to turn your customized settings back on

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