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Major problem on the Blu-ray release of Stargate

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Old 10-02-2007, 2:22 PM   #1
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Major problem on the Blu-ray release of Stargate

Just thought I would post to say that everyone should avoid the Blu-Ray release of Stargate because the subtitles for the alien and egyptian languages are not present on the disc.

Hopefully they will fix this as its one of my favourite films but for now I would avoid it.
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Old 10-02-2007, 6:00 PM   #2
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Re: Do Not buy the Blu-ray release of Stargate

HI Indiana.

They did the same thing with the first SD release as well I think. I bought the R1 special edition years ago and that had the subtitles "burnt in" to the movie.
Perhaps they will do the same thing this time round
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Old 10-02-2007, 6:24 PM   #3
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Re: Do Not buy the Blu-ray release of Stargate

Thanks for the heads up.
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Old 10-02-2007, 9:06 PM   #4
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Re: Do Not buy the Blu-ray release of Stargate

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HI Indiana.

They did the same thing with the first SD release as well I think. I bought the R1 special edition years ago and that had the subtitles "burnt in" to the movie.
Perhaps they will do the same thing this time round
Nope there are no burnt in subtitles, you either have to turn on the standard english one's or you wont have any idea what is being said.
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Old 10-02-2007, 10:05 PM   #5
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Re: Do Not buy the Blu-ray release of Stargate

Is there anyway of complaining to the actually studio about this, or is it something you just have to put up with?
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Old 10-02-2007, 11:07 PM   #6
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Re: Do Not buy the Blu-ray release of Stargate

is the HD-DVD the same? i'm trying to consider which to get.
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Old 10-02-2007, 11:29 PM   #7
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Re: Do Not buy the Blu-ray release of Stargate

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is the HD-DVD the same? i'm trying to consider which to get.
I didnt even know it was out on HD-DVD

As for complaining about it, I saw a thread on another forum with telephone numbers and email address for the company that released it but I dont think they have had much luck yet.
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Old 11-02-2007, 1:32 AM   #8
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Re: Do Not buy the Blu-ray release of Stargate

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Nope there are no burnt in subtitles, you either have to turn on the standard english one's or you wont have any idea what is being said.
Ah well thats ok. I usually watch stuff with subs on anyway. It's a habit.
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Old 11-02-2007, 3:56 AM   #9
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Re: Do Not buy the Blu-ray release of Stargate

The quality on the BD disc is less than stellar as well, an early title
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Old 11-02-2007, 1:36 PM   #10
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Re: Major problem on the Blu-ray release of Stargate

I actually thought it looked pretty good, especially the desert scenes, I sware I could see the grains of sand
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Old 09-07-2008, 8:40 PM   #11
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Re: Major problem on the Blu-ray release of Stargate

An old thread resurrected

Decided to buy this film again to see how it looks on my setup and to my surprise the copy I got from Movietyme has an added subtitle option which displays only the missing forgeign language parts.

I dont know when they re-authored this but I didnt hear anything about it but glad they sorted it.
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Old 09-07-2008, 9:40 PM   #12
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Re: Major problem on the Blu-ray release of Stargate

According to the folks over at AVS,you select option 3 in the subtitle menu and you're good to goThat's on the old pressing i think.
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Old 10-07-2008, 12:45 PM   #13
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Re: Major problem on the Blu-ray release of Stargate

I believe it is a 25GB MPEG-2 Disk but it still looks amazing compared to the DVD. It does have some grain (I did notice it) but it's still a major improvement. The should have made subtitle 3 the default.

I wonder if the UK release will be any different.

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Old 10-07-2008, 2:11 PM   #14
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Re: Major problem on the Blu-ray release of Stargate

I watched this last night and the subtitles were there when required.
The disc is excellent and the DTS MA 6.1 sound is awesome especially when they go through the Stargate.
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Old 10-07-2008, 5:09 PM   #15
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Re: Major problem on the Blu-ray release of Stargate

When I first got this disc I am 100% certain that there were only 2 subtitle tracks which is why I was quite surprised when it listed a 3rd last night.
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