Newsgroup: it.hobby.home-cinema
Titolo: How do things work in Italy as far as dubbing over the original voices?

Hello, Sorry I don't speak in Italian and I've never been there either
(hopefully some day).
It is my experience that many European countries change the movies
original voices and dub their own language over the original language.
If one rents an American movie in germany he will not hear any
English, same things happens in Spain, France and so on.
I assume the same happens in Italy?
Anyway, this guy is trying to sell me the "Aliens" DVD and I was
thinking that the interactive menus probably come in Italian instead
of English and the actors (Sigorney Weaver, Michael bienh, etc)
probably have their voices dubbed over in Italian during the movie
which I would find very annoying.
So can somebody here please tell me what's it like in Italy. If I buy
this CD will the menus come in Italian or English and will Sigorney
Weaver star talking in Italian?
Grazie
Tom Bishop

 Weaver star talking in Italian?
Only if you want... better not. ;)
Cia',
Dash
P.S.
Ok, adesso voi cazziatemi pure per tutti gli errori che non ho manco voglia
di rileggere ;)

 which I would find very annoying.
If you live in a non-European country, watch out for the region lock.
Cheers
Fabio

 which I would find very annoying.
You can believe me when I say that very often the italian success of very
poor american actors is due to the great voice expression of several italian
dubbers (an example: Wynona Rider).
The Gnappo

 Weaver star talking in Italian?
CD? You probably mean DVD. In any case it should be like this: The menu
language will depend on the settings on your player and will not be
changeable at runtime (you must eject the DVD, change the player
settings and insert the DVD again). Audio language and subtitles should
default according to player settings but will be selectable by DVD
menus. You can therefore mix&match italian and english as both language
and subtitles (with the noted exception for the extra scenes). Of course
in the extra session (backstages, interviews, original trailers and
similar stuff) you'll only find the english audio. These are nearly
never dubbed. Just subtitled.
However one thing you should pay care to: the DVDs will be PAL. This has
a better resolution (more lines) and more uniform movements compared to
NTSC but a lower framerate. Someone incorrectly thik that a lowe
framerate should give less fluidity in movements but that's not true for
movies. Movies are 24 frames per second in the film. The 50 fields per
second of PAL (two fields for each frame) is much closer to the original
fluidity than the 60 fields per second NTSC were every second frame is
held on screen for 3 fields instead of 2 giving frames of non uniform
lenght in time on the american system. However to see PAL movies your
player should be able to read PAL and translate it to NTSC (very fiew
can) or support PAL output (more common). In the second situation your
TV must also support PAL signals (more lines and more colors at a lower
framerate).
If you are going to use a HTPC the problem should not exist since PCs
are progressive and all signals are handled digitally. There's no PAL or
NTSC distinction in PCs.
Also the DVDs will be "Zone 2". Therefore your player (either TV
attached DVD player or PC based DVD drive) should be one of those
"modified" or "modifyable" so that they can support "Zone 2" disks
(unless you have a Zone 2 player that was modified to support american
disks!).
--
Andrea Ferro
IHHC - Member of HT-Group  DVD Authoring operator  Fan of I.Asimov
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