OT: DVDs - Foreign Language Subtitles

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Hey Butch,

 

You have to beware about having a European DVD player and then buying US

DVD's - as they run on different formats and regional codes, so most US

DVDs will not play in a European DVD player

 

For more info on this:

http://hometheater.about.com/cs/dvdlaserdisc/a/aaregioncodesa.htm

 

It stinks!

 

They do make " code free players " or another option is to have two

players and set one up for the US DVDs and the other for the European

DVDs. Considering that here in the US you can get DVD players starting

at under $40 - that isn't too crazy an option if you own more than one

TV ...

 

I wonder if it'll be the same when they switch over to the Blu-Ray and

HD-DVD format (and eventually HVD).

 

But I've digressed, to answer your original questions, some DVD's come

with several subtitle language options, and they can range in price -

starting from about $9 and going up from there ...

 

*Smile*

Chris (list mom)

 

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks

you can think up if only you try!

- Dr Seuss

 

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Butch Owen

 

Hey y'all,

 

Gotta question on the above. I've not purchased a DVD in the USA before

 

as I never had a DVD player .. but now I do. The English language DVDs

we find here in Turkey (most all of them are English) have subtitles in

many languages - Greek, Bulgarian, Spanish, Hungarian, Russian, Turkish,

 

etc., but they are danged expensive .. we paid close to $35 for Black

Hawk Down and I'm sure they are a lot cheaper in the USA.

 

Is it common for DVDs sold in the US to have foreign language subtitles?

 

Or are they available in the US with foreign subtitles? If so, what is

the high-low range of cost of such DVDs in the US?

 

I tried to do a search engine query on this today and got nowhere fast.

 

Thankee y'all mucho .. keep smiling. :-) Butch