Reply #43: I posted this on another thread, but it seems to fit here as well.

[tblue37]

I wear hearing aids and also used closed captioning, and I watch TV with the volume turned way up. But when Bush was speaking, I had to keep lowering the volume on the TV, because with my hearing aids in, his shouting was actually painful to me.

When you adjust the volume on a closed-captioned TV, during the brief time you are making the adjustment the closed captioning doesn't work. The fact that I had to keep "disappearing" my closed captioning to turn Bush down and then to turn Kerry back up made the fact of Bush's shouting very noticeable to me, but I was wondering whether anyone else noticed, or whether my own awareness of it was just an effect of having to constantly mess with my volume and thus lose my closed captioning for a few seconds each time.