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independent of the TV, or the CD-player[sic] (those are DVDs you're watching), almost all DVDs now have subtitles, which can be enabled from the DVD itself via the Features or Sound or Setup menu before you select Play. If you do select, say, English subtitles and have the subtitles enabled on your TV, you end up with two(2) sets of subtitles!! (due to hearing loss, I watch all videos with subtitles enabled and almost never go to theaters.)
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We rented Talledega Nights recently and it defaulted to subtitles. We had to figure out how to shut them off.
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At first I assumed that this was a problem stemming from the less than stellar cast so I wrote to the people who made the DVDs. They wrote back and told me that too many copies of this movie were lying around unwatched on the shelves of the rental places, which caused a peculiar breakdown in one part of the DVD. That made the subtitling come up whenever the movie was started, so it had nothing to do with the cast. They concluded, "Default, Dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in our shelves."
TEd
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ROTFL!! 
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those are DVDs you're watching Yeah, well, I realized that when I went back downstairs and continued watching. I did say, one time, that I had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st. C. Just about everything I know about computers, you-all taught me, so thanks again!
(Aside: the reviews I read about the H.P. series were right in more than one sense when they said the stories are getting darker. I watched some more of the Goblet of Fire during daylight hours, and at times the screen might as well have been blank, I could see so little.)
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My DVD player did that but because I had hooked it in thru the VCR instead of straight to the TV. (I'm not a techno-phobe, just a techno-Huh?) Kind of like coming indoors and forgetting to take off your  .
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I finished the Goblet of Fire. Although I had figured out that what I first understood to be Porky was actually Portkey, it took the subtitles for me to figure out Beauxbatons. Why on earth did they say it as beaux battens, instead of properly?
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