Subtitles and Closed Captions

The majority of DVDs on BBC Shop have subtitles for deaf and hard of hearing people. However, some early DVD releases have closed captions. These are specially coded subtitles called 'closed-caption subtitles'. Closed captions can only be viewed with a decoder. People who do not have a closed caption decoder can watch the same DVD but will not see the subtitles. For more information please refer to the product pages.