It's kind of a personal thing- for me, subtitles under the picture frame takes me out of it and blares "Not possible in theatres"! I probably would have done it if there was an overwhelming majority that wanted it, but since there wasn't, I'm going with what I like best personally.
As for other languages, I have watched other films to see how they deal with alternate languages when English subtitles are used. The answer is that they put the foreign language track in the lower black bar, and leave the English subtitles as part of the picture frame. Because really, to remove the original subtitles would be to alter the movie.
I want to burn them in because player generated subtitles are typically very bad. And if I burn them in to the lower black bar, then you would have a problem with foreign language subtitles, which I DO want in the lower black bar. Not enough space.
This is what's happening with the opening crawl- I know for the official DVD's they actually created new opening crawls, but that is beyond my means. There will simply be subtitles in the lower black bar.
And finally, if for some reason I or anyone else needed the clean shots without the subtitles burned in, they're sitting right on my PC. They could be easily spliced in with Womble.
I know this is not an official release, but I like to suspend belief and pretend that this is the way it came out in theatres, and that this DVD is simply a representation of that...
Still excited to see this either way.
So am I. I can't wait until it's done, I can't wait to watch it personally with friends, and I really can't wait until all of you guys see it after the long wait...