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Article: Lucent Digital Video Proposes First DTV Closed-Captioning Specification to Advanced Television Systems Committee.
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- February 4, 1999
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MURRAY HILL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 4, 1999--Lucent Digital Video, a wholly owned venture of Lucent Technologies, today announced that it will propose the first closed-captioning specification for digital television (DTV) to the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) for standardization. The specification is an open interface between the industry standard EIA-708 caption server and MPEG-2 encoders, and will be submitted by Lucent Digital Video in cooperation with ULTECH Corporation and DiviCom.
The Lucent solution will make it easier for people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing to take advantage of the new DTV services being developed. The captions ...