National Captioning Institute
Encyclopedia
The National Captioning Institute (NCI) is a non-profit organization that provides closed captioning
for television
and film
s. Created in 1979 and headquartered in Vienna, Virginia
, the organization was the first to caption live TV and home video, and holds the trademark
on the display icon featuring a simple geometric rendering of a television set
merged with a speech balloon
to indicate that a program is NCI-captioned. In the UK, many closed caption warnings had appeared on some videos by various home video companies since 1993 until the end of videocassette sales.
Closed captioning
Closed captioning is the process of displaying text on a television, video screen or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information to individuals who wish to access it...
for television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
and film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
s. Created in 1979 and headquartered in Vienna, Virginia
Vienna, Virginia
Vienna is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, it had a population of 15,687. Significantly more people live in zip codes with the Vienna postal addresses bordered approximately by Interstate 66 on the south, Interstate 495 on the east, Route 7 to...
, the organization was the first to caption live TV and home video, and holds the trademark
Trademark
A trademark, trade mark, or trade-mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity to identify that the products or services to consumers with which the trademark appears originate from a unique source, and to distinguish its products or...
on the display icon featuring a simple geometric rendering of a television set
Television set
A television set is a device that combines a tuner, display, and speakers for the purpose of viewing television. Television sets became a popular consumer product after the Second World War, using vacuum tubes and cathode ray tube displays...
merged with a speech balloon
Speech balloon
Speech balloons are a graphic convention used most commonly in comic books, comic strips and cartoons to allow words to be understood as representing the speech or thoughts of a given character in the comic...
to indicate that a program is NCI-captioned. In the UK, many closed caption warnings had appeared on some videos by various home video companies since 1993 until the end of videocassette sales.