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		mvanbaak on Jan 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable This subtitle thing is a real mess. Netflix content that is available in .nl and .br (I'm in .nl, my wife speaks pt-br) only have a couple of subtitles (english, german, sometimes dutch) and the same content in .br has totally different set of subtitles. appletv+ and disney+ and amazon prime simply offer all available subs. So it's not a UI issue, simply have a look at how they do it. And then they wonder why people pirate and use opensubtitles/legendas.tv ? Should be really really easy for them to fix.

digianarchist on Jan 17, 2022 [–]

You need to set your UI language to get access to more subtitles in Netflix. My wife is Thai and Thai subtitles only show when the UI is set to Thai.

Prime is worse. I actually watched the movie The Courier with English subtitles on and the subtitles disappeared for all of the Russian dialogue.

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