{"id":45,"date":"2007-05-01T12:10:04","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T02:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/?p=45"},"modified":"2007-10-04T16:34:26","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T06:34:26","slug":"dvd-pet-peeve-of-the-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/2007\/05\/01\/dvd-pet-peeve-of-the-week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"DVD Pet Peeve #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"left\" width=\"250\" cellPadding=\"5\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tppblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/unleashed.jpg\" alt=\"Unleashed (region 4) - Not for deaf people\" title=\"Unleashed (region 4) - Not for deaf people\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #888888\">Unleashed (region 4) &#8211; Not for deaf people<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>English is not my first language, so while watching DVD movies, I prefer to have the English subtitles on. Obviously, subtitles are essential for people with hearing difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s pet peeve is DVDs that don&#8217;t have subtitles. Back in the old days, when buying a DVD player would mean a week&#8217;s wage, many region 1 DVDs would not have subtitles, and only closed captioning support. CC support is completely useless to people outside of region 1, as we don&#8217;t have CC decoders in our TVs. But this is perhaps understandable, since these DVDs were never intended for sale outside of the US and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;ve noticed that even today, several high profile releases do not have subtitles. The most recent one I&#8217;ve encountered is the region 4 copy of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdloc8.com\/viewdvd_27268.html\">Unleashed<\/a> (released by Universal Pictures in region 4). This DVD has a DTS track, extra features, but no subtitles. The region 2 version has English subtitles for the hearing impaired, while the region 1 version has at least closed captioning support. While I would be able to live with having no subtitles once in a while, but what about people with hearing impairment? Are they not entitled to watch this movie?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unleashed (region 4) &#8211; Not for deaf people English is not my first language, so while watching DVD movies, I prefer to have the English subtitles on. Obviously, subtitles are essential for people with hearing difficulties. This week&#8217;s pet peeve is DVDs that don&#8217;t have subtitles. Back in the old days, when buying a DVD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvd_pet_peeves"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzVMv-J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}