Technical Difficulties

For some reason, our TV has started insisting on running closed captions when we hit mute. For a while they were all displaying in Spanish, which was even odder. Now they are in English, but they won't turn off. You can turn them off manually, but then they turn themselves right back on again. Sometimes they show up in different colors, like red or yellow. Usually the words in color really don't have anything to do whatever is on the screen, so it can get kind of surreal. You start wondering if you are part of some sort of They Live scenario with subliminal messages everywhere. No Rowdy Roddy Piper or ridiculously long fight scenes though.

It used to only happen on certain channels. Now it happens on all of them, and during the commercials too. If I wanted to watch the commercials, I wouldn't have muted them in the first place. I blame Comcast. They just bought Adelphia, and I'm sure it is their fault. Yep, this is just the first instance in what will no doubt be a downward spiral in our relationship with the cable company. It's a shame too, because we were perfectly happy with Adelphia.

I would like to make it clear that we aren't idiots who can't work the TV. We've had the TV for almost two years now and this was never a problem before. We've turned the captions off many times, and they keep resetting all on their own. It's annoying. Plus, I have to put extra work in to ignoring the commercials.