Comments on: What a SAP!

By: Frank Almeida

Frank Almeida — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:03:41 +0000

On the flip side, when there are soccer games on ESPN I have to SAP the TV over to Spanish because the commentary in English is probably just as bad as the Spanish commentators on American Football, Basketball, etc.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:06:29 +0000

Even just for watching Sunday Night Football - the dubbed commentary on the live games is near impossible to listen to, and they clearly don’t quite understand what it is they’re translating… being able to watch it with the live English sports commentary is a blessing!

By: Frank Almeida

Frank Almeida — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:00:20 +0000

It was one of the first buttons I pressed when I came face to face with local TV. One channel that has recently joined the SAP club is the Disney Channel. Yes, I have kids and I would not let that channel be a part of their TV viewing because until now it was only dubbed. Like Pip said, dubbed features are hideous.

Anyway, happy better TV viewing!

By: Pip

Pip — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:27:11 +0000

SAP is awesome, Dan, I´m glad you are discovering its joys since dubbed shows or movies are truly hideous. The button doesn´t have to say SAP per se, I have a Philips TV and the right button is called stereo, you just click and it goes from mono to stereo or from stereo to SAP if the channel and the cable company offer the option. In some older TVs, SAP is in the audio menu. Hope this helps!

By: dan

dan — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:01:56 +0000

And they said that blogging could only be used for evil?!

By: Saratica

Saratica — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:34:01 +0000

Could we ever have imagined this would be so exciting?!?

By: ksternberg

ksternberg — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:29:32 +0000

In the northeast U.S. where I live, if anything happens at all, pressing SAP changes the audio into Spanish. Doesn’t SAP stand for supplementary audio program? I once discovered how to get subtitles, but it looked really odd because instead of nice small lettering at the bottom of the screen, these big rectangle black boxes appeared on the lower half of the screen. The words were inside of them, but the boxes blocked out the video.

By: dan

dan — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:44:24 +0000

It is, isn’t it! Hey, but now you can test your son’s true abilities and see if he knows about the MTS/SAP button!

I find myself wondering - and I leave it up to one of you in the U.S. to tell me - what happens if you switch to the SAP setting on a TV station that offers it there? Does it broadcast in an alternate language… or add subtitling… or?