| 4/13/2008 11:08 AM |
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OMA
Member since: 4/13/2008 | | Sam & Max Animated Series - Why no subtitles?! | I've recently bought the new Sam & Max Animated Series DVD set, and I think the TV series are great so far (I still haven't seen all episodes), but I think Shout should have included subtitles in this DVD release. Not even translations, just the subtitles of the original English version. That would be great both for deaf people and non-English-native people, since some sentences are a bit hard to understand. I can't see why it doesn't include any subtitles. Any decent commercial DVD release has subtitles in a ton of languages. It can't be that expensive to hire some subtitling services, specially for a DVD set that is probably going to sell quite well, since S&M are quite popular. Having subtitles for several languages would also increase sales for them, I think. But even just the English subtitles would be a lot better than nothing.
I'm quite disappointed about this new release for that reason. I mean, it's great that they've rescued all the episodes of the animated series with perfect image and sound quality, but not having any subtitles at all in this release really detracts a lot from what is an otherwise excellent DVD set. |
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| 4/13/2008 1:00 PM |
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Spelunker88
Member since: 1/20/2007 | | RE: Sam & Max Animated Series - Why no subtitles?! | Shout Factory rarely put subtitles on DVDs has yet have to find something in particular (I forgot but Brian gave an explaination on why Shout don't put subtitles on). In fact on the other side of the pond (UK), most companies don't put subtitles on except the big names (Warner), BBC and ITV - I would consider a cartoon to have subtitles to be rare except Simpsons. When you mentioned commerical series having subtitles in other languages most of the time are movies or the odd TV show.
I know exactly about the hard of hearing people on how they feel as they would find it hard to understand or watch a series and feel sorry for them |
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| 4/13/2008 11:28 PM |
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gb_supernova
Member since: 7/27/2007 | | RE: Sam & Max Animated Series - Why no subtitles?! | | I believe Brian once said that it was too expensive to put subtitles on the disk. |
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| 5/5/2008 11:55 AM |
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B Ward
Member since: 1/12/2007 | | RE: Sam & Max Animated Series - Why no subtitles?! | This is true. It's insanely expensive to create closed captioning or subtitles, so we often hope and pray that the studios already have them done for broadcast. If so, we can normally take theirs and everything's good. If not, however, we're forced to pay a couple hundred bucks per hour of captioning/subtitling. Multiply that by 13 or more episodes and we have a seriously cost-prohibitive DVD feature.
Brian
"Know Thyself"
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