Do You Know Why Everything on TV Is Dubbed? - Page 6

Treverus · #**101** 03.02.2012, 01:28

	Quote:	axman
	Have you been to these 3 countries? they are incomparable in terms of wealth.

Yes, have been there. Sure are they not the same today, but that was not my point. At the time Europeans started dubbing Hollywood movies, in the 50s and 60s, were all three way poorer than they are today. Asia used to be the poorest part of the world, now it isn't anymore... I as mentioned: Went to Sulawesi just a week ago and I bet the majority of people there would love to be able to understand a TV program. But they make a really not so important target group for advertisers, so the TV stations will not earn a lot when catering to them, so the budget for dubbing will be non-existent... and that is why Indonesians get the show in English, not because they are better at foreign languages than Swiss.

Phil_MCR · #**102** 03.02.2012, 04:07

	Quote:	PurpleFairy
	no Im not Dutch Indonesian

same difference.

Phil_MCR · #**103** 03.02.2012, 04:09

	Quote:	KeinFranzösisch
	I hate dubbing, in any language. I'd rather the words match the movement of the lips. And when the dubbing is really bad, even the actions and expressions on the screen don't match the audio. Please, oh please, give me the original audio, and let me read subtitles. Which brings me to why dubbing exists: Literacy. As explained to me by a German man, dubbing versus subtitling had a lot to do with literacy in the country. So in countries where literacy was low, dubbing was more favored. In countries where literacy was higher, subtitling was more favored. Overtime, even though literacy rates rose in much of the world, the practices of dubbing vs. subtitling didn't change. But what I really hate more than dubbing is audio overlay -- where you can still hear the original audio, and then they've overlayed the dubbed audio, so you hear both. If you are fluent in both of the languages, it just becomes a distraction and you quickly get a migraine. It's why I can't watch the National Geographic Channel in Switzerland.

i like this because you can listen to both at the same time, or tune into one or the other. though normally they make one quieter and so harder to listen to.

i know some cases where different languages are coded into the left and right channels so you can pick one.