Bob Jersey wrote: > Ellwanger, you agree with this?
Sounds about right, although I haven't been involved with live closed captioning in over a decade and a half. Back then, we were using USRobotics 14.4k modems to connect to the network servers, although the actual connection happened at 1200 baud (closed captioning is much slower than that -- I think 60 characters per second is the maximum). The company I worked for had two sets of outgoing lines, one through some alternative long-distance company whose name I forget, and the backup via Sprint long-distance. Sprint had "free Fridays" for business customers for a time, and so we had a written procedure for someone to flip the switch in the control rooms at midnight Friday, and again 24 hours later. All this said... I'm sure they'll get something worked out. I'd argue that networks awarding their captioning contracts to the lowest bidder is a bigger issue for caption quality than the supposed dearth of POTS lines. -- Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> <http://www.ellwanger.tv> -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
