Discussion topic: No subtitles on Play.it’s recordings
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Message posted on 16 Sep 2024 08:19 PM
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No subtitles on Play.it’s recordings
My wife has severe hearing loss and relies on sub-titles but they disappear if programme is recorded on Playlist. This means that she cannot watch one programme and record another. This must be a problem for other deaf people who need sub-titles and surely Sky should ensure disability access for customers. We were previously with Virgin and recordings maintained the original sub-titles. Is there a way to access sub-titles on recorded programmes?
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Message posted on 16 Sep 2024 08:32 PM
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Re: No subtitles on Play.it’s recordings
The subtitles are likely are to be present on most shows, however the mechanism to switch them on/off is different on each app. When you playlist a show, it may not play back from a cloud recording and may instead open the broadcasters app (e.g IPlayer or ITV X) to play the show. Each of these apps have their own subtiting system, so the subtitles need to be turned on in each app.
When you turn the subtitles on via the Sky Settings, that will only persist the subtitles for live TV channels, cloud recordings or shows being played via Sky's own on-demand system.
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Message posted on 14 Sep 2025 01:27 PM
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Re: No subtitles on Play.it’s recordings
Every week I watch John and Lisa Cooking programme on Sunday 12pm it's say it has subtitles but there no subtitles displayed. It's very disappointing as I missed out on what the recipes I would like to write down. Why are they no subtitles when it's supposed to have subtitles.? I do know how to put the subtitles up but for this programme they won't come up.😞😡
Message posted on 14 Sep 2025 02:01 PM
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Re: No subtitles on Play.it’s recordings
@Iris9 wrote:
Every week I watch John and Lisa Cooking programme on Sunday 12pm it's say it has subtitles but there no subtitles displayed. It's very disappointing as I missed out on what the recipes I would like to write down. Why are they no subtitles when it's supposed to have subtitles.? I do know how to put the subtitles up but for this programme they won't come up.😞😡
The current series has finished now.
It is though now available on ITVx.
When playing from there click on the subtitle on/off toggle underline in yellow while pausing the show, as shown in my picture below.
Here are the subtitles;
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