How did the TV know what closed captions to show when VHS tapes were played?

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How did the TV know what closed captions to show when VHS tapes were played?

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The TV doesn’t know anything. The captions were stored on the tape in a section that doesn’t appear on-screen, but could be interpreted by a closed caption decoder.

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