Notes on Sony DSR - 45, 50 & 85

Note from a Sony Rep:
The DSR-45 outputs closed captions only in NTSC and only on the monitor out connector. It does not output closed captions in the component, main video or S-Video outputs. There is no magic mod to my knowledge to turn this on and it has been asked for previously to my recollection. 

By the way, among the DVCAM products, closed captions only exist in NTSC machines or NTSC mode. The DSR-85 never supported closed captioning, the DSR-45 as you now know only outputs CC on the monitor output and the DSR-50 only outputs CC on the video output. All the other DVCAM machines basically output Closed Captions. The POSC Group at 800-883-6817 has this information in their FAQ database. 

Please refer the customer to the Sales brochure and maybe give a heads-up to the other Sales people who may need to know this gotcha. Sorry again for
the bad news.

The Sony Business Solutions & Systems Product Operations Support Center: http://bssc.sel.sony.com/BroadcastandBusiness/minisites/HDV/support.shtml