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I just turn subtitles on when I watch a movie on Apple TV.

• derefr 11y ago
  In my experience, the Apple TV's native subtitle rendering (which seems to be identical to QuickTime Player's rendering) is atrocious. It doesn't understand styled subtitles (e.g. separate colors for separate speakers, or bold/italics/etc.), or Unicode characters in subtitles, or subtitle screen-placement directives, and it frequently manages to do stupid things like displaying comment lines left in the subtitle file as if they were part of the text. Watching subtitled video is the main reason I have a Mac Mini plugged into my TV.
• atmosx 11y ago
  There are no Greek subs for most of iTunes content. If AppleTV was able to fetch subs from opensubtitles.org I'd had a subscription but it doesn't. Plus the fact that some content is not readily available in my country, plus the fact that I must change format for huge load of media makes the entire thing a deal breaker. I won't even start mentioning what XBMC can do that AppleTV can not because it's embarrassing.