area A - latin America

[Octavio]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

Hello, and welcome to Blu-ray.com!

I would like to quickly point out to you that the fact that Brazil overlaps the United States (and the rest of the countries in Region-A) does not mean that all Blu-ray releases will be Pan-A (meaning that they will include subtitles for al languages spoken in Reigon-A countries). This is the case with the majority of Region-B Blu-ray releases as well - they do not offer subtitles for all of the languages spoken in Region-B.

I have seen plenty of titles released on BD whose DVD versions (discs with much smaller capacity) does include more subtitle options than their BD counterparts.

I am not asking for EVERY language spoken in the so called "Region A" to be included on the BD's but the most "important" should be there:
Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, French and of course English HOH.

Several BD titles includes subtitles for all those languages (if not more), Heck even some DVD's does it!

IMO the reason why they aren't included is to reduce costs (although I don't think it's too expensive to add portuguese subs). Or perhaps because some legal stuff.

Some studios that always (almost always) includes portuguese subs are: Sony, Warner, Paramount, Dreamworks.
Disney and Universal use to release "latin versions" with a myriad of audio and subs options including portuguese. Other than that the discs are identical to those released in the states: same lossless audio track in english, same video bitrate, same supplements. Identical.

In the other hand Lionsgate, MGM, FOX usually doesn't include subs in portuguese albeit the last two quite often offers subs in Korean, Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, Spanish, French.

Criterion can only include english subs for legal reasons, I think.

Brasil is no a small country, its population is close to 200 millions and is one of 10 biggest economies of the world. Why some studios have decided to ignore that huge market? That's something beyond my comprehension.