4 ms·
Balkanization in the licensing models is the biggest problem for people outside of the US. There is a lot of media that I cannot buy digitally. Some of those I
by strictfp 5y ago
Balkanization in the licensing models is the biggest problem for people outside of the US. There is a lot of media that I cannot buy digitally. Some of those I can buy in physical formats, and some I just straight up cannot buy. Period.
- JD557 5y agoOne aspect of region locking that makes me very confused is dubbing. I just moved to Germany and a lot of movies in streaming services are only available in the German dub, not with the original voices... Why? I mean, I assume that for some reason the platforms just buy the rights for the dubbed version, but don't the subbed original versions also have a ton of demand (maybe more than the dubbed version)?
- _nalply 5y agoBecause Germans monumentally hate subtitles. I know that because I am Deaf and I would like to have subtitles even using German services, but they hate subtitles so much that they even won't have optional subtitles. Probably because some Hinterwäldler accidentally turned on subtitles and bogged down support by being livid and not listening to the simple solution of turning subtitles off.
- datenarsch 5y ago> I mean, I assume that for some reason the platforms just buy the rights for the dubbed version, but don't the subbed original versions also have a ton of demand (maybe more than the dubbed version)? Why would it have a ton of demand? Nobody in Germany wants to watch subbed original versions for the same reason nobody in the US wants to do that. The German market is big enough so that everything gets localized and people are used to that and expect it.