What is meant by “branching opening crawls?”
I cannot STAND soft subtitles. But it’s your decision obviously on which you want to use. But consider this, TFA has burned-in subtitles not soft subtitles. So it IS something an official Bluray would do, is it not?
I think an official blu-ray may or may not have burnt in subtitles. But they wouldn’t have the gate weave, slight blurring, etc.
TFA’s seem slightly blurry. In fact they resemble the OT burned in subs pretty closely. Font, blur and all.
Yeah, DVD soft subtitles were crap, but Blu-rays can look pretty good if anyone bothers to make them look that way. Not theatrical, but good. Blur is very doable, but gate weave, grain, dirt, and any sort of temporal appearance change would not.
Like I said earlier, TFA’s subs are not soft they’re burned in. And better looking or not, I dislike soft subs immensely for ripping reasons.