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--- Forwarded Message from "Cindy S. Tracy" <[log in to unmask]> ---
>Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 08:32:26 -0500 (EST)
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]>
>From: "Cindy S. Tracy" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #5428 Popular DVD movies are only French and Spanish
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> But only French and Spanish are common as additional sound and audio
>tracks. I wonder if the decision to limit the number of tracks was made
>because someone thought the interest in such a feature is limited. Would
>there be enough interest? Could we communicate that there would be to the
>decision makers?
>
>Ken Carpenter
I have asked about this in order to sell DVDs in other language tracks and
the reason I was given is that the Spanish and French audio tracks are
readily available on videos formatted for TVs and VCRs in the U.S. Market
(the French ones being converted in Canada for North America) and the other
languages are on videos that are on different systems. There are original
foreign language DVDs available in Italian, German, Japanese, Chinese, etc.
but not American movies. I assumed that since DVDs are coded for different
regions it has to do with the video conversion to DVD format.
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