No subtitles

Enkidu

Hi,

Does anybody know if there is a way to watch TG4 without the subtitles, I always find my eyes accidentally glancing down and they're annoying anyway!

craoltoir

Ní féidir mar go mbíonn na fotheidil ar an scáileáin, seachas ar an gcóras téacs. Is faoi TG4 an scéal a chur ina cheart ach creideann siadsan go mbíonn lucht féachana níos fearr acu de bhrí go mbíonn na fotheidil ar an scáileán an t-am ar fad.

P. Breathnach

Masking tape?

Gumbi

craoltoir wrote: »

Ní féidir mar go mbíonn na fotheidil ar an scáileáin, seachas ar an gcóras téacs. Is faoi TG4 an scéal a chur ina cheart ach creideann siadsan go mbíonn lucht féachana níos fearr acu de bhrí go mbíonn na fotheidil ar an scáileán an t-am ar fad.

Tá an ceart agat - agus acu, dar liom.

Sorry, OP, nothing you can do about it, it's broadcast with the subtitles. Perhaps the masking tape option is good for you?

Enkidu

Sorry, OP, nothing you can do about it, it's broadcast with the subtitles. Perhaps the masking tape option is good for you?

Ah grand, I was hoping maybe there was a version without the subtitles somewhere on the TG4 site or some other method I'd missed. Masking tape it is then!

Ní féidir mar go mbíonn na fotheidil ar an scáileáin, seachas ar an gcóras téacs. Is faoi TG4 an scéal a chur ina cheart ach creideann siadsan go mbíonn lucht féachana níos fearr acu de bhrí go mbíonn na fotheidil ar an scáileán an t-am ar fad.

Ó, Tá an ceart agat, fé mar a dúirt Gumbi thuas.:)

Paz-CCFC

I started a thread about this in Teach na nGealt before - it feckin' drives me mad! It's probably the number one reason that I don't watch TG4 that much. There's no reason at all why you shouldn't be able to turn them off.

Is the masking tape suggestion genuine or just a joke? Wouldn't it leave a mark on the telly?

P. Breathnach

Paz-CCFC wrote: »

...
Is the masking tape suggestion genuine or just a joke? Wouldn't it leave a mark on the telly?

It was a joke. Masking tape would probably make a bad mess of a LCD or Plasma screen (you might get away with it on an old-fashioned CRT).

Depending on your set-up, it might be possible the place something so as to obscure the bottom edge of the screen.

Paz-CCFC

P. Breathnach wrote: »

It was a joke. Masking tape would probably make a bad mess of a LCD or Plasma screen (you might get away with it on an old-fashioned CRT).

Thought it was alright, but you seemed to get a few replies validating the idea!

Depending on your set-up, it might be possible the place something so as to obscure the bottom edge of the screen.

TG4 really shouldn't be forcing its viewers to be doing this, just to watch a bit of telly.

P. Breathnach

You could use my approach: a small screen, and view from a relatively long distance; with my eyesight, I can't read subtitles.

craoltoir

Is féidir leat do thuairim a thabhairt don stáisiún anseo:

http://www.tg4.ie/ie/contact-us.html

sallywin

Harsh enough review pf TG4 in Sindo magazine at the weekend. Didn't spot any complaints about the subtitles mind, but the reviewer had plenty of mud to throw all the same. Suits the Sindo's agenda it would seem but at the same time a bit of balance is needed. They reviewed the station based on programming all last week. The summer time is generally when TG4 is at its worst, and last week was a bad week, even this week would seem to have better shows on offer!

They even managed to criticise the news, never mentioned Maolra who is currently the chief newsreader while Eimear Ní Chonaola is away (it would appear) and they made a snide remark about Eimear being scary with a hard stare or something.

Problem with the likes of that reviewer is that they don't appear to have any appreciation of native speakers and proper spoken Irish so they just put that to one side altogether, when clearly it should be taken into account.

Some of the things they said were true. Lack of investigative news programmes for example- but that could be said about RTE also and the onus is on them more so in that area of course.

Yes, too much English on TG4, but what can be really done about that?

cytex

what i normally do is just bring up the upc menu on the bottom press ok on the remote hides the subtitles just right

dlofnep

Mise chomh maith... Bím i gconaí ag léamh na fotheidil. B'fhearr liom dá mbeadh fotheidil ar fáil as Gaeilge.. Tá sé deacair domsa canúint Chonamara agus canúint Uladh a thuiscint.. Ba chóir a bheith rogha ann ar aon nós...

somairle

Enkidu wrote: »

Hi,

Does anybody know if there is a way to watch TG4 without the subtitles, I always find my eyes accidentally glancing down and they're annoying anyway!

No, but on a lot of programs you can at least turn on Irish subtitles which cover the english. On the programs where you see the '887' in the top right hand corner go to that page on the teletext and Irish subtitles will start.

We switched to sky from upc recently & now have S4C, the Welsh channel, now thats a proper minority language station, no subtitles but you can have them optionally. No reason why tg4 cant do this. On the English programming, Even BBC Alba seem to have less English. Theyre are lots more cheap shows they could do, news based discussion shows, irish learner programs, chat shows etc that would increase Irish. I find the drama & documentaries on TG4 excellent, there are other areas they could move into more though.

i am the same As a learner I find myself lazily wandering down to the English while if i concentrate properly I can understand most if the Irish, so they really hurt my learning.