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Seems this is a free-for-all to drop language gripes, so here's mine about Apple TV. Have a family member who only speaks Japanese. My Apple account is in Finl
by bemmu 1y ago
Seems this is a free-for-all to drop language gripes, so here's mine about Apple TV.
Have a family member who only speaks Japanese. My Apple account is in Finland. We wanted to watch The Martian together, but can't select Japanese dub even though that audio track definitely exists. They just don't show you the options not relevant to your account country, and the only way around is to change your whole Apple account to a new country.
Which you cannot do while you have an active Apple TV subscription.
End result: unable to watch Apple TV as a family.
- netsharc 1y agoMy guess is there's licensing issues, i.e. the Japanese language dub isn't licensed to be played in Finland... in this case the moronity is due to copyright laws/lawyers.
- jiehong 1y agoI don’t buy that argument. Sometimes if you buy the movie you have more audio choices, on the same platform. If you buy the Blu-ray, you likely have tons of languages not present in the streamed video.
- netsharc 1y agoAnd streaming vs. distribution licensing laws differ... ask a copyright lawyer near you.
- frollogaston 1y agoIf buying on the same platform unlocks more languages, that sounds even more like a copyright thing
- anigbrowl 1y agoYou'll get regional languages. I would be astonished if a blu-ray of a non-Japanese film bought in Europe had a Japanese soundtrack.
- jurip 1y agoNetflix had a similar oddity, also in Finland: if I recall correctly there's an account language setting, and you have to set it to English to see Kim's Convenience. No need for a VPN, no need to claim you're in another country, but it's just hiding the content unless you've set the right language. Even if we're using English subs when watching content from the Finnish language UI.