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

[PanaPlasma]

Originally Posted by -shadow-

Don't get me started on Disney and their lack of languages on any disc. Why are they being so incredibly difficult about including a bunch of languages on a single release in general? And that's not even mentioning the hilarious 4K Star Wars releases that have Dutch text on the cover, the Dutch rating on the cover, have Dutch menu's on the disc... But no Dutch subs whatsoever... Oh and they didn't even release them here, they released them in bloody Belgium, so ever 4k version I did come across was as an import...

Not to say that I need the subs, but still...

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.

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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.