Who manufactures caption encoders?
More companies are making encoders every day, and the line between a caption encoder and a subtitler (character generator) grows fuzzier as well. Most captioning systems support devices like the Chyron CODI, which does subtitles but can´t encode captions. Devices like this are not included on this list of encoder manufacturers: EEG The original manufacturer of caption encoders, EEG makes a wide variety of caption-related hardware for both North American and European formats Evertz Evertz produces high-end digital encoders Link Link makes both broadcast-quality encoders and decoders Norpak Norpak manufactures a variety of encoding equipment, including EIA-608 compliant digital and analog encoders SoftTouch SoftTouch started out by manufacturing caption encoder plug-in cards for PC´s, and expanded into a full encoder line Ultech Ultech makes a caption encoder and a subtitling unit, which can generate some very attractive fonts for open-caption applications If I use a remote captioner, wh
