• by solardev on 9/7/2024, 5:55:53 PM

    There's no market forces or accessibility requirements that incentivizes them to do both. For what it's worth, I think it depends on the particular movie/show (as opposed to the platform) whether they have both closed captions and regular subtitles. Some media will have both, but it's cheaper to just make one set (closed captions) that everybody can see.

    As an alternative, maybe you can just find unofficial subtitles on opensubtitles.org and then overlay them using special display software, instead of using the built-in ones from the streaming providers.

  • by Bowes-Lyon on 9/7/2024, 12:37:07 PM

    Maybe because they are too big to care?