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I've never been a fan of subtitles, but I find myself using them more these days. They can enhance the viewing experience and make character names and dialogue more clear. But they can also be ...

How often do you watch TV shows and movies at home with the subtitles on? If the answer is “all the time,” then you’re not alone. As at-home audiences have entered the streaming age, subtitles and ...

The Caption Center at WGBH invented broadcast captioning, providing open captions on TV for the first time. Closed captions, which viewers can choose to turn on or off, came along around 1980.

Some of Hollywood's most iconic movies are often the most quotable. Think Rhett Butler's, "Frankly my dear I don't give a damn" from Gone with the Wind or Star Wars' "May the force be with you" or ...