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Post #498412

Author
xhonzi
Parent topic
opinions on film restoration/preservation and how it applies to Star Wars - what do you think should/should not be allowed?
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Date created
11-May-2011, 4:44 PM

RE: Subtitles

I don't think branching really works well enough for what you describe.  The crawl presents a unique opportunity to get in/get-out as far as the branching goes.  And the crawl is- what? 30 seconds?  What would be the total run time of all subtitled scenes in RotJ?  Assuming you have to do it scene-by-scene instead of shot-by-shot (due to the non-seamlessness of branching) you'd be looking at a substantial runtime.

Are subtitles not any better on BD?  I thought the increased resolution and raw computing power would allow for some nice anti-aliased/high res fonts for BD subs, but I don't think I've yet seen any subs on BD.