Apple’s Movie Store and international users
I was really excited by the prospect of a lively and wonderful new H.264 movie download experience, until I realized that there will be no Japanese subtitles, forcing me to sit back and wait for Hollywood to spoonfeed new releases at their usual glacial pace over to Japan, if ever.
If some enterprising young bilingual japanese kids decided to sell VLC compatible subtitle files for hollywood new releases…. I am sure they would find very few paying customers.
Oh the fun of being a very very marginalized market.
Will wrote:
Are you forgeting in your post to mention why you want japanese subtitles exactly? I’m guessing you will be able to follow most of a Hollywood movie even with just it’s original language track.
Posted on 29-Sep-06 at 7:49 am | Permalink
seth wrote:
Aside from that I live in Japan and thus know several japanese people that can’t watch a film without japanese subtitles or dubbing, of course you know that I am with a japanese girl. If I want to watch a new hollywood movie I have three choices:
watch it alone when it comes out, as a screener via bittorrent*
watch it alone when the US dvd comes out, via bittorrent*
fly to southeast asia for $400 and buy a $1 copy that doesn’t even work.
wait a year for the Japanese theatrical release and pay $10 per person.
wait a year and a half for the Japanese DVD release, and pay $3.
None of these options is very fun.
* bittorrent is possibly the least fun, since it takes my limited free time to just look around for something to download, and often the films I want to see aren’t even available.
Posted on 29-Sep-06 at 11:42 am | Permalink