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Metalsnake · 06-09-2001, 10:27 PM

I just bought Traffic, and when i was watching the movie, i noticed that you can turn off the english subtitles for the mexican portions of the film. This has to mean that the subtitles are not burned into the print. To me they look different than the ones that were in the movie when it was in theatres. Can anyone clear this up for me. I also wanted to know if the CTHD subtitles on the original Mandarin track are the same kind as the ones on traffic, or if they are the same as they were in the theatre. Thanks a lot.

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esc · 06-10-2001, 03:48 PM

this is becoming more and more common.. burned in subs in the theater becomming player generated subs on dvd. Charlies Angels is an example of the worst usage i have seen of this.
CTHD's subs are player generated also (you can turn them on and off), the ones in the theater were white and in a beautiful font, these are yellow and kinda fugly. i dont find it as distracting as charlie's angels or traffic though as the whole film is subbed and you dont suddenly have big yellow blocky letters jumping off the screen at you.

deepfry · 06-11-2001, 08:42 PM

What's really funny is that different players will use different fonts. My sony player has pretty ugly fonts for cthd, but my panasonic has a wicked looking font, that really fits in well with the movie.

Once again, my panny impresses me.

John Walker 2 · 06-14-2001, 07:46 PM

The annoying thing is they could put ANY font they wanted and even have it animated (check out the Ghostbusters DVD commentary) instead of leaving it to the 'default' one in the player.

If they did a decent job on this I doubt anyone would complain about burnt on subs... Wait till you US guys see T1... hehehehe - boy are you gonna hate it!

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clortho · 06-14-2001, 07:50 PM

I still can't understand how Cameron (the control freak he seems to be) is allowing MGM to do that to his movie without so much as a peep..

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06-09-2001, 10:27 PM	#1 (permalink)
Metalsnake Supporting Actor Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Potomac, MD USA	DVD Subtitles (Traffic, and CTHD) I just bought Traffic, and when i was watching the movie, i noticed that you can turn off the english subtitles for the mexican portions of the film. This has to mean that the subtitles are not burned into the print. To me they look different than the ones that were in the movie when it was in theatres. Can anyone clear this up for me. I also wanted to know if the CTHD subtitles on the original Mandarin track are the same kind as the ones on traffic, or if they are the same as they were in the theatre. Thanks a lot. ------------------ The $nake has finally returned

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06-10-2001, 03:48 PM	#2 (permalink)
esc Stay behind my aura! Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: camrose, alberta, canada	this is becoming more and more common.. burned in subs in the theater becomming player generated subs on dvd. Charlies Angels is an example of the worst usage i have seen of this. CTHD's subs are player generated also (you can turn them on and off), the ones in the theater were white and in a beautiful font, these are yellow and kinda fugly. i dont find it as distracting as charlie's angels or traffic though as the whole film is subbed and you dont suddenly have big yellow blocky letters jumping off the screen at you.

06-11-2001, 08:42 PM	#3 (permalink)
deepfry Unnecessarily Loquacious Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Pickering, Ontario	What's really funny is that different players will use different fonts. My sony player has pretty ugly fonts for cthd, but my panasonic has a wicked looking font, that really fits in well with the movie. Once again, my panny impresses me.

06-14-2001, 07:46 PM	#4 (permalink)
John Walker 2 Actor Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: UK	The annoying thing is they could put ANY font they wanted and even have it animated (check out the Ghostbusters DVD commentary) instead of leaving it to the 'default' one in the player. If they did a decent job on this I doubt anyone would complain about burnt on subs... Wait till you US guys see T1... hehehehe - boy are you gonna hate it! ------------------ Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me DVD Fight for the Deleted Scenes Petition

06-14-2001, 07:50 PM	#5 (permalink)
clortho Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Hemet, Ca	I still can't understand how Cameron (the control freak he seems to be) is allowing MGM to do that to his movie without so much as a peep.. Clortho ------------------ I am the Keymaster clortho@hotmail.com