24-11-2023, 17:15
Thanks for getting in touch and for your kind comments on the Collection. Apologies that you're disappointed that not all the films are subtitled.
We would like to have subtitles on all the discs we release. Due to the high cost of production of DVDs, typically subtitling in English is carried out internationally and the files are therefore delivered to distributors in individual territories, so the cost can be shared. Unfortunately captions are not supplied to us as standard in all cases, but with new/contemporary and restored titles we are getting much closer. It is more complicated for classic or older films, like those in the Wenders collection, because the films came before the improvements and often the caption files were never created. If subtitles have been created then we do include them on the discs that we author. That said, we are investigating more economical ways of creating the subtitles ourselves, just for the UK, so we hope that, despite the challenges, we can improve in this area in future.
All the best.
Damo.
Damian Spandley
DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMME & DISTRIBUTION SALES
We would like to have subtitles on all the discs we release. Due to the high cost of production of DVDs, typically subtitling in English is carried out internationally and the files are therefore delivered to distributors in individual territories, so the cost can be shared. Unfortunately captions are not supplied to us as standard in all cases, but with new/contemporary and restored titles we are getting much closer. It is more complicated for classic or older films, like those in the Wenders collection, because the films came before the improvements and often the caption files were never created. If subtitles have been created then we do include them on the discs that we author. That said, we are investigating more economical ways of creating the subtitles ourselves, just for the UK, so we hope that, despite the challenges, we can improve in this area in future.
All the best.
Damo.
Damian Spandley
DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMME & DISTRIBUTION SALES