@gavs82008
A problem with subtitles, which we had in Spain, and just encountered again with Borgen - the Power and the Glory on Netflix, is that they serve two purposes; to make programmes with the audio in a foreign language comprehensible by showing subtitles in your native language, and to augment native language audio for the hard of hearing.
To save people who don’t need the latter from having to turn subtitles on for foreign language audio programmes, the presumed default native language subtitles are usually embedded in the video stream.
Thus, Borgen was shown with English subtitles for the many foreign languages being spoken - except for English, where they didn’t appear. We have subtitles turned on by default with Netflix unlike Now, which still steadfastly refuses to remember the setting from session to session - so we presume there was no separate subtitles track for this programme.
So we had to strain to hear the English 😢 Obviously, any separate subtitles track would have just had to show during the English bits, so as not to overwrite the embedded subtitles, but it could have been done - Netflix missed a trick there.
But when considering subtitles, you have to think about whether they have been embedded for translation purposes, for people who wouldn’t normally need them, or are on a separate subtitles track, for the hard of hearing, or for those who need another language.
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