That's not really right, I think. DVDs in every case carry the subtitles/closed-captions digitally, outside the video stream. Your DVD player muxes them into the NTSC output. Does your BD player not do so?
I'm pretty sure that's not right. I don't know how it works elsewhere in the world, but in the US, there is a definite distinction between DVDs that are closed captioned and DVDs that are subtitled. Subtitles are the DVD-specific out-of-band data that it overlays onto the video and is enabled via the DVD player. Closed captioning works exactly like it does when attached to an NTSC source, meaning that you have to tell the TV to decode the captions.
It would be nice if DVDs were all subtitled instead of closed-captioned, but this is not always the case, happening, as I said, more often with TV shows on DVD, and
especially, for whatever reason, on British TV shows.
One reason that could possibly occur, is if in fact all BD players can do it. Are you certain that's not the case?
100%. I've already bought and returned one, and got a definitive answer from their support.
(Admittedly the makers of the BD player would have to go out of their way to do that, and include a rasteriser and a font, but surely the consumer expectation is that a BD player is a strict superset of a DVD player?)
Well, they already have to include a rasterizer and a font for subtitles, right?
Technically, I suppose, it is a strict superset, with the exception that the connection is generally HDMI instead of an analog connection typical of NTSC signals. I bet that DVD players that are connected via HDMI have the same problem.
But, again, I'd really rather have my Blu-Ray player connected via HDMI. I suppose it might be possible for it to work properly via a component connection, but I haven't tried, and I'm not really sure that there's a Blu-Ray player that has component connections on it, at least for an amount I'm willing to pay.
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