4K UHD: Fewer subtitles than on regular Blu-ray? Why?

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Originally Posted by PanaPlasma

I'm not aware of this?

Discs from Belgium / Netherlands have smaller age ratings on their cover compared to UK, US & Germany.
Or no ratings at all...

Our market is completely ignored for blu-ray or uhd releases. Mediocre dvd's is often the only thing we get.
And recently more and more dvd-releases got cancelled.
Often we got ignored for streaming and legal downloads as well. Many titles are OOP because majority of local distributors have gone bankrupt.

Blu-ray or 4K has never been promoted which resulted in bad sales, so they started cancelling blu-ray's in favor of dvd's.

Same goes for France.... the very few supermarkets that are still offering physical media have replaced blu-ray's for dvd's.

At some point Carrefour France had a large blu-ray section but after some time they had to remove them... back to 95% dvd - 5% blu-ray.

A guy at Mediamarkt Belgium (biggest store in belgium for blu-ray) told me, that they couldn't get rid of blu-ray's. At some point they offered the blu-ray at 50% of the price of the dvd. And 90% of the customers still bought the dvd.

Many of those who bought the blu-ray ... returned it because it wouldn't play on a dvd player.

Most people never heard of blu-ray and don't know it wouldn't play on standard dvd players.

It's not because lack of finances, as dutch speaking part of Belgium + Netherlands are amongst the wealthiest regions in Europe.

That's a real shame.