User talk:JDS2005

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[edit] Citizen Kane

On this edit of yours: Isn't such paraphrasing normal for captions? -- Hoary 11:13, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

A word changed or omitted here and there is normal (I notice this because I'm deaf as a post and find myself turning on the captions constantly when I watch DVDs), but the discrepancies are quite pervasive, so much as to change the tone, if note the content, of the dialogue, which definitely is not normal. Do you think I need to expand my edit to make that point? JDS2005 06:49, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I think so. Another thing: Has there only been one US-market DVD of the film (or anyway only one with English-language captions)? I'd have ignorantly guessed that there have been more, but really don't know. Perhaps different DVD editions need to be distinguished here.

Oh, and a belated welcome to Wikipedia-editing! -- Hoary 07:00, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I'll expand the edit to make the point that the discrepancies are greater than normal.

As far as the DVD releases, I THOUGHT there was only one US DVD, but I'm not absolutely sure of it. I suppose it would make sense that there should be multiple releases...for example, I would have expected, as one of the greatest movies of all time, that there would have been at very least one simpler, more primitive DVD released almost as soon as the format was available, in addition to the much more fully-featured version that I am familiar with, and maybe many more editions on top of that, but I am aware of no such editions. I'll see if there's some place I can find that information, but I'm not sure where to look, IMDB maybe? I know they would be registered with the US copyright office or something, but I'm not sure how to access that.

And thank you for the welcome...although I'm not really new to editing this thing, I've been using and editing it for quite a while. However, the "free" and "open" structure encouraged me, in my laziness, to never sign up, and hence have no user page or anything. One question though...how do you get the four tildes to work? When I type them, the only thing that displays is...four tildes. I've been signing things manually (luckily my Breitling has a secondary time zone that I have set to GMT). JDS2005 07:13, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

On various DVD releases: amazon.com gives me various versions, and that's just for region 2. (Hmm, this is interesting. Perhaps it has started to do IP-sniffing. I've never been offered region-2 discs before.)

The tildes: I just type them in. I wonder whether you're using unusual software (such as an unusual keyboard remapper). When I use a Gecko browser or Konqueror and simply type into the box, I type in four tildes. When I copy from an external editor and paste in, I also use four tildes in the editor. That works with either a US-market or a Japanese-market keyboard. I'm particularly puzzled as you say you get four tildes: it would be less surprising if you got nothing at all. Anyway, what's the software? -- Hoary 08:12, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Region 2 is Euro, isn't it? So that sort of hints that there might be multiple US (Region 1) DVDs, but that's not even remotely conclusive.

As for the tildes, I'm just using Microsoft's built in remapper to run my keyboard as a DVORAK keyboard instead of QWERTY...but that shouldn't affect anything, as Wikipedia should interpret any given character exactly the same way, regardless of which physical key I punch to get it. But all I get is this: JDS2005 08:25, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Bloodly hell, now it works! JDS2005 08:25, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

As an outside observer, does the caption trivia entry make sense to you now? JDS2005 08:37, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

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