Sony Pictures Saawariya: Stuffed up subtitles

[syncguy]

Columbia Tristar Sony Pictures has stuffed the subtitles of the second Bollywood blu-ray movie Saawariya.

It has one line on the picture and the other on the black bar rendering the disk in its original form useless for CIH (continuous image height) displays thus forcing people to seek alternative solutions. How ridiculous.

I opened the case and asked my 12 year old son to insert the disk to our PS3 to be displayed on our Sony vw60 anxiously thinking Sony must have got the subtitles right. (We are a Sony family! Sony supports CIH by providing anamorphic stretch in vw60) Disk was played on the PS3, once selected the stuffed up subtitles appeared. My 12 year old son said: “Dad, they have stuffed up the subtitles. How can we watch this movie?” I did not have a friendly answer to that question. It is very interesting that my 12 year old boy said (without me influencing his thinking): “Dad, they have million subtitles in this, why didn’t they add another subtitle track fully on the picture, so we could have watched this movie.”

I had to explain to him the fact that some people have tunnel vision and it is very hard to force them to see outside of that tunnel. Also I had to explain to him that in some cases in some large organizations, the right hand does not know what the left hand does.

This is unfortunate and unbelievable. This could have been avoided very easily and it is ironic that this happened after informing Sony about this issue numerous times through this forum and other major forums. I am not sure anymore how to communicate with large companies …….

I urge blu-ray disk association to inform all studios about this (easily fixable) significant technical problem and request them to add an extra subtitle track fully on the picture for CIH displays and the zoomers. After all this is a matter of few more clicks in the authoring program. Please do this.

I wish Sony CEO read this post.