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This DVD has the text commentary so that it's formatted in a rectangle
and it overlaps into the image. I hate that, are there other DVDs with
text commentaries like that?

You sure you dont have CC turned on on your tv? I've yet to see ANY dvd
that had subtitles of any kind that showed up in a box. In fact, I have yet
to see any substantial subtitles overlay on the picture for any widescreen
release, its always in the border area.

"Richard Fangnail" <> wrote in message
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> This DVD has the text commentary so that it's formatted in a rectangle
> and it overlaps into the image. I hate that, are there other DVDs with
> text commentaries like that?
>

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:43:43 GMT, "Biz" <> wrote:

>You sure you dont have CC turned on on your tv? I've yet to see ANY dvd
>that had subtitles of any kind that showed up in a box. In fact, I have yet
>to see any substantial subtitles overlay on the picture for any widescreen
>release, its always in the border area.
>

He's not talking about subtitles. This is something completely
different. He's talking the text commentary that goes along with the
film.

And yes, it shows up in a box over some of the scene.

In article < .com>,
"Richard Fangnail" <> wrote:

> This DVD has the text commentary so that it's formatted in a rectangle
> and it overlaps into the image. I hate that, are there other DVDs with
> text commentaries like that?

Well, the "Ozzy Translators" on The Osbournes DVDs do something similar.
Big, bright words in random colors and fonts pop up all over the screen
any time Ozzy speaks. It's rather quite annoying. Better just to leave
it off and take wild guesses as to what Ozzy is mumbling on about...
--
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people,
and neither do we." - George Dumbya Bush

"Black Locust" <> wrote in message
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> In article < .com>,
> "Richard Fangnail" <> wrote:
>
>
> Well, the "Ozzy Translators" on The Osbournes DVDs do something similar.
> Big, bright words in random colors and fonts pop up all over the screen
> any time Ozzy speaks. It's rather quite annoying. Better just to leave
> it off and take wild guesses as to what Ozzy is mumbling on about...


Ozzy Osbourne is "rather quite annoying" himself.

-Warren

In article <%sX_d.15418$ .net>,
"Warren Schmidt" <> wrote:

> Ozzy Osbourne is "rather quite annoying" himself.

That's all part of his enigmatic charm my friend.

> -Warren
--
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people,
and neither do we." - George Dumbya Bush

"Richard Fangnail" <> wrote in message
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> This DVD has the text commentary so that it's formatted in a rectangle
> and it overlaps into the image. I hate that, are there other DVDs with
> text commentaries like that?
>

Quite a few actually, but my guess is that the makers of the "on screen
commentary" (or "fact track") have assumed (in at least my case, correctly)
that you've already seen the film you are watching the "commentary" on....so
don't always need to see every inch of the picture of every frame.

Spider-Man, for example, has one that has webbing all over it, Men In Black
has a telestrator.....and Ghostbusters (at least for the non-16:9 crowd) has
an MST3K-like commentary! Fargo-SE takes up quite a bit of space
also.....there's so much info to convey in those "fact tracks" that it's
damn near impossible for the words NOT to cover at least some part of the
screen, especially for 1.78:1 titles where there is NO black bar on 16:9
sets.....

I don't see the problem here....if you haven't yet seen the movie and the
"fact tracks" are taking up part of the screen and you can't see the mailbox
in the corner or the borg vanity mirror in Engineering, then watch the movie
first and then watch the commentary, that way the vanity mirror you can no
longer see becomes less important to the plot.