Postby Aeneas » 03 Sep 2018 22:05
Again, this is advertiser/public relations nonsense --
how would you deal with the situation where you buy several audio CDs,
but do not know which track is which ?
Is the labeling metadata on each album/CD important in knowing which track to play
or which album/CD the specific track is even on ?
Often, it is that one track which is the reason you bought the album.
Same thing is true with recording TV programs --
again, often the reason a movie was recorded is because of some actor/actress
or maybe even a general subject matter which can be expressed with a Keyword,
which Windows Media Center Scheduler will key on,
e.g. "mafia", "bribes", or "detective" or "musical" or "romantic" or "eastwood", etc.
US Congress Energy and Commerce committees should convene an oversight hearing
on the 1996 Telecom Act and ask Microsoft point-blank why they have not
included Windows Media Center in Windows 10.
If they need to fix the law, then they should focus on that.
In addition, this legislation should require that the HDMI specification,
and its related specification EIA/CEA-861B,
which is the main audio/video output signal from the cable set top box stb/dvr devices,
must include Closed Captions (CC).
Currently, the only output signal from the STB which contains Closed Captions
is the old original Composite Video signal, which is around 720x480 video resolution
and is disappearing from some of the newer STB/DVR devices.
Currently, the EIA/CEA-861B specification explicitly refuses to support Closed Captions.
Closed Captions sends the text with the video signal and allows a family with 1 Deaf person
and 4 Hearing people to select whether to activate it on individual TV devices,
rather than permanently superimpose the text on the video picture (open captions).