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Post #892871

Author
CatBus
Parent topic
Harmy's RETURN OF THE JEDI Despecialized Edition HD - V3.1
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Date created
3-Jan-2016, 6:53 PM

DVD subtitles look bad because the subtitle spec only allows 3 colors + fully transparent, which means smooth curves and diagonals are impossible (plus the low res). The only way to have decent-looking subtitles on a DVD is to burn them in or player-generate them from an outside source. Blu-ray subtitles mostly look pretty good in my experience, except when they just upscale the old DVD subtitles (e.g. the Matrix), and that’s always pretty awful looking.