Captions at last!! Thanks to PIP

Who would have thought that PIP would be the answer to all my research?! PIP, in case you don't know, is Picture-in-Picture - made so you can watch baseball & your favorite movie at the same time. We didn't need to invest thousands of dollars for captioning software after all.

We purchased a large screen plasma TV last week that has PIP capability and connections for our live video feed and voila! we have captions. The TV we purchased is a Viewsonic N2751, 27" HD LCD. It has the ability to have PIP in 4 different sizes. We have chosen the largest window which divides the screen in half vertically. Placing the video feed and the computer screen side by side.

I believe many other TV models would work just as well or better so find the best deal you can. Look for a screen resolution that is 1280x768 or better with built-in dual tuners for picture-in-picture display.

Set up is very simple. I plug in the electricity, the video feed, and connect it to our laptop computer (our tech guy had the cord on-hand), you may need to purchase one at a local Radio Shack. We have placed the TV on a rolling cart so it can be rolled in and out of our auditorium easily.

This set up will work with our stenography set-up or our voice writing set-up. It has been a very cost effective solution to our problem.