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Hunt for Red October - Universal HD - No Subtitles?

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6/18/08 at 7:12pm
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Today I just got around to begin watching Hunt for Red October which I recorded to my DVR last week off of the "Universal HD" channel on DirecTV. I was somewhat shocked to discover that the beginning section of the movie in which Connery and his crew speak in Russian was not subtitled in English. I tried turning on the captions and they still did not appear.

What gives? Did anybody else happen to catch this?
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6/18/08 at 8:55pm
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Re: Hunt for Red October - Universal HD - No Subtitles?

That's freakin' hilarious. That is some serious sleeping at the wheel.

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6/18/08 at 11:45pm
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Re: Hunt for Red October - Universal HD - No Subtitles?

Wrong category. Should be in Hi-Def Software.
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6/19/08 at 9:06am
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Re: Hunt for Red October - Universal HD - No Subtitles?

The SD DVD contains the subtitles as a normal part of the movie (you don't have to turn them on).
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6/19/08 at 1:35pm
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Re: Hunt for Red October - Universal HD - No Subtitles?

Regarding the SD-DVD:

IIRC, not all the dialog at the beginning that is spoken in Russian, is subtitled. Only some of it.
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6/19/08 at 1:55pm
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Re: Hunt for Red October - Universal HD - No Subtitles?

Why would something recorded from TV to a DVR be categorized under High-Def software? The thread police really need a vacation.
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6/19/08 at 2:11pm
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Re: Hunt for Red October - Universal HD - No Subtitles?

It was on AMC or something (plain old SD analog cable) a month or two ago, and there was the same problem. No subtitles for any of the Russian, neither at the beginning, nor toward the end. I guess they must be sourcing from a new print without the subtitles burned in.
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6/19/08 at 2:14pm
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Re: Hunt for Red October - Universal HD - No Subtitles?

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Originally Posted by Mike Williams
Why would something recorded from TV to a DVR be categorized under High-Def software? The thread police really need a vacation.

Agreed. This time they didn't even read the post
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6/19/08 at 5:02pm
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Re: Hunt for Red October - Universal HD - No Subtitles?

Sorry, I thought he was talking about a HD disc of this title. I always took TV Programming to refer more to the actual shows themselves, usually TV series.
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6/20/08 at 7:41am
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Re: Hunt for Red October - Universal HD - No Subtitles?

Since we are talking about the cable channel's presentation of the movie I think this is the appropriate forum.

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6/21/08 at 12:09pm
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Re: Hunt for Red October - Universal HD - No Subtitles?

I noticed this too, though not right away. I like this movie and have watched it several times so I was mostly understanding what they were saying. Then I said, "wait a minute, something's missing."

Seems like just another example of not taking enough pride in the product you put out and and saving a few bucks by not giving a %$#@.

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6/21/08 at 12:17pm
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Re: Hunt for Red October - Universal HD - No Subtitles?

The same issue also occured on the HD broadcast for Clear and Present Danger.
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6/21/08 at 1:09pm
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Re: Hunt for Red October - Universal HD - No Subtitles?

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The same issue also occured on the HD broadcast for Clear and Present Danger.
Yes it did. Were both those movies by the same study or distributor?

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