The Shade Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 Hey everyone. Hope you all had a nice Christmas and that Santa delivered lots of anime, manga, and other related items under your trees this year. I got The Girl Who Leapt Through Time DVD Collector's Edition DVD from my parents and at first, it was a great gift. As I sat down to watch it using my table top DVD player, my great gift seemed plagued with an annoying problem. I wanted to watch the film in Japanese with English subs and chose these options in the setup menu. As the film started and the characters started talking, no subs came up. I checked and the subs were active. I also tried turning them off and on, but with no effect. I tried out the other 2 sub tracks included (one for use with English dub translating on screen text and the other for the Japanese commentary), both of these worked fine. I then decided to try it on my DVD-ROM and all subs worked well on it. There also appeared nothing out of the ordinary about the dialogue subtitles that would have prevented my table top player from displaying them. I looked online if I could find any other people experiencing this similar problem, but could not find any. At this point, I guess I should also mention that my table top player is 7 years old, but this is also the first time I have ever encountered this problem. I also find it strange that it plays the other 2 sub tracks. Before asking some friends with newer players to test the DVD, I wanted to get some feedback from you guys and also to see if you have any recommendations on solving this problem (short of buying a new player ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 Played fine in my player, perhaps your players settings are overriding your choices? Try going into your players setup menu, and switching the default language to Japanese, and subtitles to English. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shade Posted December 26, 2008 Author Share Posted December 26, 2008 Played fine in my player, perhaps your players settings are overriding your choices? Try going into your players setup menu, and switching the default language to Japanese, and subtitles to English. Thanks for the suggestion Keith, but unfortunately, it didn't work. I will try it on another table top player and see what that does. If it still doesn't work, I'll contact Kadokawa. If it does work, well I'm screwed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfx Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Is this an R1 release? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shade Posted December 29, 2008 Author Share Posted December 29, 2008 Is this an R1 release? Yes, it's the collector's edition 2 disc edition (plus the ost included as a 3rd disc). And bad news for me: I tried the disc at a friend's house and it works perfectly. So, it looks like I'm screwed. Still, like I said above, this is the first time I've ever encountered this issue. Also, as there 2 more sub tracks on the disc and they work perfectly well on my player, I can only conclude that whoever Kadokawa/Bandai hired to encode this disc did something unusual. I wonder if it would be worth it to contact them and report this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampy19 Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 yeh i had the same problem you had with my Macross 2 dvd but i used ito n my regualr dvd player and it was fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfx Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Yes, it's the collector's edition 2 disc edition (plus the ost included as a 3rd disc). And bad news for me: I tried the disc at a friend's house and it works perfectly. So, it looks like I'm screwed. Still, like I said above, this is the first time I've ever encountered this issue. Also, as there 2 more sub tracks on the disc and they work perfectly well on my player, I can only conclude that whoever Kadokawa/Bandai hired to encode this disc did something unusual. I wonder if it would be worth it to contact them and report this. Probably not...if most ppl's players are working fine. Its probably just a old player. Perhaps its possible to flash the firmware (though i doubt it since the player's old and all) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shade Posted December 30, 2008 Author Share Posted December 30, 2008 Probably not...if most ppl's players are working fine. Its probably just a old player. Perhaps its possible to flash the firmware (though i doubt it since the player's old and all) I looked into flashing my player's firmware a couple of years ago, but by then, it was already too old. I've had it for 7 years. Just for the heck of it, I think I'm going to send a note to Kadokawa/Bandai and ask them how they authored those subs and see what they say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfx Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 The Girl Who Leapt through time, live action. Different story from the anime. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K-f4GpAXC4...player_embedded Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugimon Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 ooh, awesome. love the anime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VFTF1 Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 (edited) What's a Table Top Player? Sounds like a stripper that does erotic dances on tables... For the record, I just watch DVDs on my laptop. Don't have a DVD player seperate from that, or a TV, and my Table Top Player works fine but also has problems with english subs - she just speaks Polish all the time no matter what buttons I press on her set up menu. Pete Edited December 25, 2009 by VFTF1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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