do you use English subtitles

[RandyS]

As far as weither or not DVD's have CC, it doesn't matter. If they do, fine, if not, you can set either your TV or your DVD player for them. At least I can. I believe you are in Tasmainia? What Region number is that? I'm not sure if that matters, but you never know.

How can DVD players and TVs do this? If there aren't subtitles on the disk then how can a TV or DVD player produce them?

With the DVD player, you enter the MENU, choose SETUP, then, you choose DISPLAY, then, CLOSED CAPTION, and set it to ON.

But again, we are in different regions, so your menus might use different terminology, or might not have them at all.

But that's how it works for me.