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Originally Posted by Brain Sturgeon
Hey Penton--
Please extend kudos to the folks at SPHE for their fabulous work on the BD transfer of The International-- the video quality is just magnificent.
However, there is one issue that I wanted to point out, and that is the handling of the subtitles in this title. There were only a few, but they were partially in the bottom of the video and partially in the lower black bar. I know this issue has been beaten to death, but this is problematic for those of us that use CIH systems. Gran Torino (another great flick) also did this, although I will have to bug Warner Bros. on that one. I understand if the subtitles are entirely in the lower black bar or entirely in the lower portion of the video (much preferable for CIH systems), but I don't understand the half-in half-out technique. Movies in the theater place subtitles within the video frame, so I don't see why doing that on a home video presentation would be problematic. If you could pass that on to the powers that be, I'd greatly appreciate it. I would imagine that folks with non-scope systems wouldn't mind it, but I dunno, would a poll be in order?
Thanks mate!
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I have a serious request for any of our industrious members here or one of the moderators….
I am interested in an online poll on Blu-ray.com that inquires as to how the members feel about the positioning of subtitles for SPE Blu-ray movies. We are just checking public interest, nothing decided, nothing imminent.
I would appreciate if someone could run the survey when they get a chance (posting a link to it here on my thread to save me time in not searching for it) and hopefully there will be some statistically significant participation from our members. This is one of those rare opportunities in which
your direct input could influence the policy of the home video division of a major Hollywood studio. There is no guarantee that we will make a change to current policy (option #2), although we will strongly consider it if the poll shows a strong preference to the contrary.
Thanks,
Penton
Please post the parameters of the poll as follows…………..
My preference for subtitle positioning in regards to widescreen (AR 2.30 or greater) pictures is......
1. Place all subtitles
inside the active picture
all the time.
2. As it is not possible for SPE to place both lines
outside of the active picture, I choose what SPE currently does which is, one line in the active picture and one line out.
3. It makes no difference to me, as either way is fine.
As a footnote to the above poll and just to answer future member inquiries or desires now…… it is not practical to provide both position options on the same disc. This is because raster based (as opposed to text based subtitles) look better since they are anti-aliased and this type of sub cannot be moved as a normal player function as their position is predetermined at the time the subtitles are prepared.