Turning On Closed-Captioning on TV/Movies

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Does anyone else like to do this? I tried it once on a whim many years ago and discovered I could understand and remember more of the show/film with captioning. Now I do it every chance I can get.

I used to have them on all the time (and it used to annoy my dad a lot, because he said they always distracted him ), but my current TV isn't capable of showing them. I think they helped me understand and remember the show a lot better too. Also, I am a very visual person, and I can understand words a lot better when I can see them. For instance, I love learning languages, but have a hard time understanding something spoken unless I can read a transcription of it. Also I remember words by thinking of what the word looks like, and it's spelling. So I guess it's a similar reason why I used to use subtitles all the time, to help me understand things better.

I don't do it often with movies anymore, since I've grown to be used to not using them, but like Verdandi said, I almost always use them with video games.

Yeah, I love it! I can catch what people are saying.

I don't like it on less serious programming such as cartoons because even when I can hear clearly what is being said, once the captioning is on I cannot ignore it, it just read it even when I don't want to.

I used to do this all the time. I still do for certain movies where it's difficult for me to understand what they're saying, like in Alice in Wonderland or Sweeney Todd.

if i weren't for the captions i wouldn't be able to comprehend 90% of what today's actors are mumbling. dvds which lack captioning go right back to netflix, unwatched.

I used subtitles on movies where I can.

I went through a stage where I was addicted to foreign films and I've enjoyed reading the dialogue of movies ever since.

I used to do it w/TV, but I don't really watch it anymore... w/movies it's a must have.

most programmes I would use subtitles find them very helpful.

I turn on subtitles whenever they are available. It helps me understand what's going on.

Yes, I always turn them on if they're available. I don't understand people being annoyed by them, I've never heard anybody comment on it. Most of the people I watch movies with are used to watching foreign films with subtitles, so maybe it's not as much of a difference to watch English-language films the same way?

Against my parents' better judgment, I grew up eyeball to eyeball with the television, but whereas people might tolerate it in a child, they are seriously disturbed by the sight of a fat old man sprawled on the floor in front of the TV. So much of the time I am forced to sit in a chair at a "proper" distance from the screen. Captioning, which allows everything to be said twice twice, helps a little bit in recapturing the up-close-and-personal TV experience I miss so much, without forcing me to buy a screen that blots out my picture window. I also use captioning to help me with those Spanish movies I am otherwise just pretending to understand.

I like to do this, I find that it works well in case I miss something.