I’m so sick of having to watch movies with my wife with Simplified Chinese subtitles cos the only place I can find the movie with Chinese subs is some random Chinese site. Apple TV doesn’t have all movies for sale/rent, and I’ve never found a decent pirate site that consistently has traditional Chinese subs. I could download the movie and add subs with an SRT file, but it’s way too much hassle. I’ve got to the stage where I’d happily pay, but can’t find a service that reliably allows me to buy/rent all the movies I want to watch digitally.
Tonight for example I want to watch Drive with my wife, but can’t find a service that has it.
we gave up and just pay youtube per movie when there is a worthy one.
it was so much better in the vcd age!
even their translations are often inadequate. they all are really. but at least we dont need to pause quite as much to explain to her the meanings. same with chinese movies with english subs and her lausing to explain to me. seems it was never a priority to translate things accurately
pet peeve.
edit. whenever someone who isnt me has downloaded things, it’s always on a burner computer. those sites are filled with problems. I wouldnt trust my left over lunch boxes with them.
haha. I gave up on those for that reason. watching frozen, for the 20th time, and having to cover the daughter eyes before really took away from the movie. the inlaws disagreed cause it’s free
ya, that’s an issue. hut I dont think anywhere has everything. used to be DVDs you could get anything. at least anything recent. streaming was a mistake. always have physical, have digital as an option not an absolute
Drive is in Netflix -no English subtitles - and My Video -no English subtitles either. But yes, Traditional Chinese subtitles.
As to variety, yep, Netflix sucks. My Video at least has newer ones and the price per individual movie, 70 NTD, I find quite reasonable. Disney+ actually has a few gems in between the filling space. YouTube surprisingly has interesting stuff.
And that is why I still got DVDs. You guys that have kids ought to have DVDs.
It’s definitely a problem and I wish I had suggestions.
We’ve traded the admittedly limited selection of Blockbusters etc. for a vast library of streaming films roughly equivalent to the 1990s gas station VHS bargain bin.
I signed up for Criterion when I was in Canada, and I love that (as long as you sign up in Canada or US, they don’t seem to care about where you’re accessing it), but that does nothing to solve the Chinese subtitle issue.
Netflix taiwan really sucks for movies. try a vpn with them and see what netflix worldwide has. subtitles are hit and miss then though.
to OP. can your wife read english subtitles? many taiwanese friends of mine have a harder time listening to things than reading things, so the english in written form they get along with well enough.
For those who don’t know, “Just Watch Taiwan” can be useful for figuring out where or if things are available. But it’s not great - searching for “Drive” didn’t give any useful results, while searching for “Drive Ryan Gosling” sort of worked, in that it told me it’s not available for streaming. (Even if it somehow just searched based on “Drive R”? Is that what’s happening below?)
CatchPlay appears in results quite a bit. I don’t know if that’s a service people would recommend; I have no experience with it.
Is Netflix once again easy-ish to use with a VPN? I was doing that a while back, and then they made it complicated enough that I stopped bothering. (Although that once again likely won’t solve the subtitle problem.)
