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| Registered: May 22, 2007 |  Posts: 138 |
| | Posted: | | | | Does anyone has a dvd with yellow'ish subtitles?
I have and I find it very weird to see yellow subtitles.
It' the new release of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider steelcase edition.
Is this normal or a production fault? |
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| Registered: March 28, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,299 |
| | Posted: | | | | It's not a production fault. For some strange reason they like to put yellow subtitles on some releases. I don't much care for them myself.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,217 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting jurgen42u: Quote:
Does anyone has a dvd with yellow'ish subtitles?
I have and I find it very weird to see yellow subtitles.
It' the new release of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider steelcase edition.
Is this normal or a production fault? It's perfectly normal. Basicly the subtitles can have any color the authoring crew chooses. See DVD Demystified if you want to kow more. So far I've seen white, yellow and black ... the latter not being words but "shadows" of the commentary people, as if the would sit in the row in front of the watcher. (Ghostbuster IIRC) cya, Mithi | | | | Mithi's little XSLT tinkering - the power of XML --- DVD-Profiler Mini-Wiki |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | Edit. | | | | Last edited: by dee1959jay |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | I've seen yellow subtitles occasionally. It's not a production fault. |
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| Registered: April 17, 2007 |  Posts: 1,091 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yellow with black outline subtitles are used here in Australia. It's what we're used to, and personally I find they blend with backgrounds far less than white (even where there are still black outlines involved). I hope you are still able to enjoy your movie. | | | | Adelaide Movie Buffs (info on special screenings, contests, bargains, etc. relevant to Adelaideans... and contests/bargains for other Aussies too!) |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 315 |
| | Posted: | | | | In the VHS era, yellow subtitles were almost the rule here.
Then with the advent of the DVD they became white just like the TV ones. Though rarely now, but sometimes a movie still appears on TV with the yellow ones. | | | | With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress. |
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| Registered: June 21, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,621 |
| | Posted: | | | | Like others have said, it's a mixed bag and plenty of dvds have yellow subs.
I can argue either way, as I've seen yellow ones that read better than white and vice versa. It just depends on the backgrounds really, so a bright movie I prefer yellow or outlined. |
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| Registered: March 23, 2007 |  Posts: 317 |
| | Posted: | | | | One company I know put a great deal of thought into the design of subtitles. They did things like investigate easiest position of the subtitles for reading (which was in the middle/bottom of the screen with different lines left-aligned compared to each other) and added the very helpful feature of different colours for the different speakers. I wish more companies would do that.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 671 |
| | Posted: | | | | While I have seen yellow subs, they are few and far apart here - I don't remember ever seeing a DVD with them...
But on TV, I have seen a beautiful mix of colors! Swedish TV sometimes does this, when they sub via teletext. You have no doubt that this is for the hearing impaired: While most text is white, everything spoken by the main character/show host (IIRC) is blue, song lyrics are green, and if I'm not mistaken, they use yellow for "non-visible voices", like radios, the other end of telephone conversations and things like that... | | | | The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. (William Gibson) |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yellow text against anything in the background is so much easier to read.., I hate it it when they use white lettering and the background is pale white you can't read it then..
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