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Is it possible to record something with subtitles?

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The Sam Rockwell movie Choke is on Channel 4 on Friday but it finishes pretty late - 1:45am. I'd like to record it although I usually eat/drink while watching movies and therefore watch them with subtitles in case I miss anything. I know I could just turn on subtitles if I watched it on TV although could I record it with the subtitles on?

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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 7,488
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    depends on your recording method
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,486
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    theonlyweeman wrote: »
    depends on your recording method

    I was going to record it onto a VHS tape - my DVD player doesn't record.
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    this_is_methis_is_me Posts: 1,304
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    Well VHS recorders that recorded subtitles directly were always pretty rare, so its very unlikely that yours will. So that means that in order to record subtitles it needs to be recording the output of a digital tuner (e.g. a set top box) with the digital subtitles switched on.

    Or get a more modern recorder.
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    grahamzxygrahamzxy Posts: 11,920
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    ThatWasCool wrote: »
    The Sam Rockwell movie Choke is on Channel 4 on Friday but it finishes pretty late - 1:45am. I'd like to record it although I usually eat/drink while watching movies and therefore watch them with subtitles in case I miss anything. I know I could just turn on subtitles if I watched it on TV although could I record it with the subtitles on?

    In that case, when you watch it drink throughout the movie, but be sure to only eat during the ad breaks, better still just pause the recording as you are eating.
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    GlomperGlomper Posts: 3,250
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    BBC iPlayer auto records subtitles, but only for BBC Progs.

    Perhaps Channel 4 has a similar on-line system ?
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    ScousingScowlerScousingScowler Posts: 934
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    Humax PVR records subtitles.

    I tend to watch shows with subtitles because I tend to miss parts of the dialogue when I don't have them on. The accents can be a bit hard to understand sometimes.
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    nuttytiggernuttytigger Posts: 14,053
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    Glomper wrote: »
    BBC iPlayer auto records subtitles, but only for BBC Progs.

    Perhaps Channel 4 has a similar on-line system ?

    And only online!
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    bbvbbv Posts: 519
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    How noisy an eater are you? :eek:

    I don't get how you eat and drink to a volume where you can't hear anything on your tv, but your eyes never leave the screen! :D
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,098
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    nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom
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    JAS84JAS84 Posts: 7,430
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    ink171, what? :confused:
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    GilashGilash Posts: 7,137
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    My dvd player records subtitles, but it depends what make it is though. Not so sure about VHS tape though. I would not have thought so.:cool:
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    JELLIES0JELLIES0 Posts: 6,709
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    I think that if you record off a TV with the digital subtitles switched on, via a Scart lead connected to the VCR than it should record OK.
    If you rely on the VCRs own tuner then I don't think you can (usually) have any subtitles.
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    mad_dudemad_dude Posts: 10,670
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    Some of the later VHS records record subtitles I know my panasonic did but only from an analogue signals. You can just enable the subtitles on your freeview box and record the signal from that.
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    DVDfeverDVDfever Posts: 18,535
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    ThatWasCool wrote: »
    I was going to record it onto a VHS tape - my DVD player doesn't record.

    Just stick the subtitles on, on your digibox. Your VCR will record what you normally watch.
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    this_is_methis_is_me Posts: 1,304
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    DVDfever wrote: »
    Just stick the subtitles on, on your digibox. Your VCR will record what you normally watch.

    Only if the input to the VCR is the output of the digibox. The OP doesn't say. They might live in a pre-switchover area and still have the VCR connected directly to the aerial.
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    DVDfeverDVDfever Posts: 18,535
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    this_is_me wrote: »
    Only if the input to the VCR is the output of the digibox. The OP doesn't say. They might live in a pre-switchover area and still have the VCR connected directly to the aerial.

    Before switchover, I just had my digibox looped through the VCR to the TV. You're going to want to record something at some point, and given that the OP is only concerned with recording subtitles and not programmes in general, then surely the VCR input is connected to the digibox output already.
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