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| Registered: March 20, 2007 |  Posts: 56 |
| | Posted: | | | | I think it would be a nice addition to DVD Profiler, if we can save subtitle informations of bonus content. Currently DVD Profiler only saves subtitles for the main feature, but doesn't save them for the bonus content. The addition of this feature would benefit hearing impaired people (they can check, if a DVD is completely subtitled) and people in Non-English speaking regions, where the bonus content should be subtitled, if it is English.
For British DVDs there is a service called www.dvd-subtitles.com, that already provides this informations for British releases. The user can select, if a DVD is not, partly or fully subtitled. I think this system would also work for DVD Profiler (extras not subtitled, extras partly subtitled or all extras are subtitled).
I am hard of hearing, so this would be a very useful addition for me, because it is very difficult to investigate, if a DVD release is fully subtitled or not. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,741 |
| | Posted: | | | | The problem would be that there can be n items of bonus material.
When it is ok to check a subtitle box? When all bonus has that sub? When one has it? All but the trailer(s)? | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | | Posts: 56 |
| | Posted: | | | | One checkbox would be not sufficient. I think the system of DVD-subtitles.com is pretty good, because there are only three states (Completly, partly or not subtitled), that cover most (all?) cases. If we try to enumerate all subtitles for all bonus materials, it would be a pain to input the data and the creation of a good GUI ti input all these informations could be difficult. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | Just as a matter of curiosity, are there that many titles that have subtitles in bonus features? | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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 | johnd | | Evening, poetry lovers. |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 298 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting kdh1949: Quote:
Just as a matter of curiosity, are there that many titles that have subtitles in bonus features? I would say, in region 4, about 30% have some form. This is possibly because most region 4 are also region 2, covering Europe. |
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | | Posts: 56 |
| | Posted: | | | | In Germany, most releases are completly subtitled, if the main feature is a English speaking movie. The only exception is Warner, because they don't subtitle the audio commentaries, with some exceptions). In the United Kingdom most releases of the major studies (Fox, Universal, Warner, etc.) are also fully subtitled (I don't understand, why US DVDs with the same bonus features aren't subtitled, because there are subtitles). |
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| johnd | | Evening, poetry lovers. |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 298 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Reihnold: Quote:
I don't understand, why US DVDs with the same bonus features aren't subtitled, because there are subtitles. If you look at the region coding scheme, you'll see that region 1 does not cover a large, diverse, population. US releases are targeted to English speakers, though there does seem to be a fair bit of Spanish subtitling, for obvious reasons. |
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | | Posts: 56 |
| | Posted: | | | | But the US market also has hearing impaired people, who would benefit from subtitles for bonus features. The releases in the United Kingdom for example only target that market (and maybe BeNeLux or Scandinavia), nonetheless they have English subtitles on the bonus features. German releases of the major companies, also have English subtitles, even though, the typical German customer won't watch the bonus features with English subtitles but with German subtitles. |
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| johnd | | Evening, poetry lovers. |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 298 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Reihnold: Quote:
But the US market also has hearing impaired people, who would benefit from subtitles for bonus features. In the US, this is covered by the Closed Caption feature. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting johnd: Quote:
Quoting Reihnold:
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But the US market also has hearing impaired people, who would benefit from subtitles for bonus features.
In the US, this is covered by the Closed Caption feature. But I don't think most bonus content on R1 DVDs is Closed Captioned. At least not what I have taken the time to examine, so Reihnold's concern is still valid. | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 151 |
| | Posted: | | | | In spain, usually all extras came with subtitles, but not all cases.
I remember film with spanish subtitles withaout subs in extras. Specially Warner audiocomentaries.
I think is a good adition for the program. |
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