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Are all american DVD releases so ugly?
kenshin-dono:
I actually buy a lot of R1 DVD releases, i like to support the companies that bring stuff over. One thing has always bugged me though; American subtitles. The translations are usually decent enough, though some make me wish id stuck to the fansubs =P The real problem is the friggin font. Most use that big ugly yellow font. Maybe its because i havent watched any in a while but some of the newer ones ive stared on seem to be even brighter yellow than i remember and even bigger and more intrusive font. Hell i just started moribito and the subtitles on that series are so bad to me im watching it dubbed. Theyre huge, bright, and worst of all seem to be placed quite high up on the screen. Almost 1/4 of the way up it seems which blocks the screen and is very intrusive. I have no idea why its so high up, maybe they were afraid of overscan and overcompensated?
Are all animeworks subs this bad? I didn't think id ever watch another series dubbed but these forced me to. Are there any companies out there that actually use a GOOD font/color for their subs? Im really worried to check out some of the other newer dvds ive picked up
My dvd player is kinda old, i was wondering if maybe newer ones actually give you a font color option or anything. That would help a lot, i just hope the positioning and size is better on these other dvds
I really thought companies would have improved their subs in the years ive been away, im very disapointed that it actually seems worse than i remember it being. You'd think companies would want to put more effort into this kinda stuff and give people a reason to buy the DVDs. Especially since most people just d.load fansubs and never suport the industry. This is certainly not giving people incentive to do so.
Neco:
Its long been a problem, I have plenty of yellow subs, seems to be a common theme with Animes for sure. But approaching it from their perspective, its likely not considered a main feature because whatever they invest in translation is probably little compared to both the taste of the core demographic and the cost of producing the DVD that way. The Japanese track on Gall Force Eternal Story is horribly noisy almost to the point where it hurts to watch it. The english dub on the other hand is very clean, and has remixed (stupid) music in some scenes and overall sounds much better.
Its a sure bet that the majority of people that buy R1 DVD's are not buying them to watch the series in Japanese with subtitles. Otherwise companies would never have started doing dubs in the first place, and just kept releasing subtitled stuff.
I hate to sound like a prick about it, but it seems to me like people who prefer subs are in the minority as far as the North American market goes. It doesn't help the cause though, that instead of focusing their energies on pressuring companies to actually change stuff (you know, letter writing campaigns, organized presence at Anime conventions, etc) that people who like subs either just silently accept the quality, or worse choose to let the the vocal minority of sub-nazis just prefer to troll the Internet repeating "dubz sux0rz kekeke!" over and over again speak for them instead.
Drew:
I can't wait for DVDs to go away forever. Way too many problems with them. Everything needs to be Blu-ray or digital.
ant900:
--- Quote from: Drew on November 29, 2009, 09:23:15 PM ---I can't wait for DVDs to go away forever. Way too many problems with them. Everything needs to be Blu-ray or digital.
--- End quote ---
The fact that they are physically on DVDs has nothing to do with it, in fact for the most part Blu-Rays aren't even really needed since true HD anime is still not that common. Though having an entire series on one disk would be nice.
As for Yellow subs from what I hear the main reason why they use those is because it is the easiest color to see, so no one will have any trouble reading them.
Takeshi:
--- Quote from: Drew on November 29, 2009, 09:23:15 PM ---I can't wait for DVDs to go away forever. Way too many problems with them. Everything needs to be Blu-ray or digital.
--- End quote ---
Vobsubs don't exist on 'da blu-rays? Makes me wonder why they needed those vobsubs in the first place? Because anime is full of color or something? Regular dvds don't contain them AFAIK. Yes, I really can't remember. *checks*
I saw Bad Boys II last weekend, pretty sure no yellow vobsubs was evident.
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