In Israel, only children's films are dubbed, and subtitles are pretty much the norm. As far as consuming it, I agree that if you're not experienced, it won't be convenient, but once you get the hang of it, it becomes a second nature, like driving.
Feallan: Here in France for example we have excellent dubbing actors which are regular actors originally. Some movies and shows are great to watch in French for a bunch of people here, it's a good thing. For US films and shows I can't stand subtitles personnally unless they are in English because they mean the exact same thing that you hear in the audio. Sometimes obviously we have abysmal dubs so we watch the original version instead.
In Poland voice-overs are still popular in TV for some reason. I guess our voice actors may be at fault, e.g. watching Avengers with voice-over is bearable, but the dubbed version they've shown once was ridiculed in the internet for days. ^^ I've never heard so many cringeworthy lines in one movie before.
I personally don't know a single person who would prefer to watch a dubbed movie. Theatres had this option for Hobbit movies, but apparently not many people were interested, every day they had like 10 showings with subs and two with a dub.
To be fair: some german dubs really s**k But some voices are great, and if you see a movie from childhood on with a certain dub and voices, it is quite strange if you see it afterwards in original audio, or with a redub.
I could bring a likely question in return: I never understood why USA movie production tend to remake really good foreign movies... it is just expensive and most are really bad.
It is easier to consume a movie in your mother language. I do not know many people like watch movies just with subtitles, because it is harder to concentrate on the screen while reading along.
We watched "Kingdom of the Spiders" (with William Shattner), "Scream" (SD DVD screening of the unrated DC), "The Hallow" (it was in english with subtitles) and first, and probably last, time ever theatrical shown in German "The green Inferno"
Basically VPN server is a middleman between you and the site you connect to. The player gets the server's IP, sees that it's un the UK, thinks "OK" and starts sending video. Then the server forwards it to you, encrypted.
Virtual Private Network. Someone in another country has a VPN Server, and with a client you log via VPN using this server into his network and use the Internetgateway, as if you would be physically connected in the regarding Network.
Seeing it at the Tech Museum in San Jose on film, in 2D! (Thank goodness they're not equipped for digital or 3D! I also saw the Dark Knight trilogy there earlier this year.)
Anybody in need of stuff from usenet can PM me and I might be able to help. I am testing a french service that has a retention rate of ~2600days that I already verified to be true and the speed is decent
MAybe that way they could only give away as much invites to use, as big as the production volume is. The system is quite weird, yes, and sometimes it is annoying, if someone waits for an invite some month...
From Jay:It can take days for DNS updates to propagate completely. They just have to wait for their ISP to update their server (or switch to a public DNS).
We did have a open test period where everyone could access the test site. The server may still be propragating in some places. If there are still access issues in the next day, let me know or report it to Jay.
OT is working when I use a US proxy... So apparently it's not working for anyone with European IP. I wonder what's up with that. Is that intentional, SilverWook?
...it was due to the script upgrade, I guess... maybe I should start a poll, to know if I have to restore the black emoticons (that, by the way, are still "alive" somehow, I guess... )
boo, everyone uses them and, in film terms, (LOL) they remind me of a DNR'ed to death mess, while the other ones are a 35mm IB Tech scan... except for the "big cheese" smile-that was atrocious. But, whatever works
damn, just when i started liking our emoticons, you go and change them the only one I had an issue with was what showed up for this: ...it gave the forum a "unique" quality, why did u change it back?