You also are limited in where you can sit within the theater because usually the board will be on one side of the theater rather than in the middle. The downsides of this system are that it takes more effort for the theater to install (they have to put that marquee board up in the theater versus just putting a wireless unit in the projection room). At the back of the theater there will be a marquee board that will display the dialogue except inverted like it would be if you looked at text in a mirror! You have to angle the plastic so that you can see the reflection of the words and thanks to physics the reflection you see is inverted back to being normal. You are given a small slightly tinted piece of plastic attached to a stand that rests in your cup holder like the previous system does. My personal favorite is the Rear Window system. The worst part in my opinion is how you have to refocus your eyes in order to switch between the screen (which is a distance away) and the device (which is right in front of you) and breaks immersion.
Sometimes it will be missing a line or two of dialogue. They look silly as well but I don't care much.Īnother system is the CaptiView which rests in your cupholder and has an LED screen that is protected by blinds so the light from the text doesn't disturb anyone else.
#How does closed captioning work movie
The big cons are every theater I go to seems to have multiple faulty units and the glasses are heavy and hurt your nose by the time the movie is over. The words appear on the lenses and it does work rather nicely. One system is a large set of glasses ( like so) that you wear that is hooked up to a small box that has the wireless technology, controls, and battery. I've had the grace (and misfortune) to use three different systems.