Can't locate film with subtitles

senior chef

senior chef

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Hello,
As the years roll by, I am increasingly hard of hearing and I now need closed captioning/subtitles. There are a number of films that I have purchased through Amazon/ebay that do not have C.C./subtitles. For example, I'd love to get my hands on an Agatha Christie film titled "Death on the Nile" (1978 version) starring Peter Ustinov and "Witness for the Prosecution" starring Charles Laughton and "Walk on the Wide Side" . All 3 are excellent films and I'd love to add them to my collection PROVIDED they are Region #1 and have C.C./subtitles in English. If anyone has any idea of where I might find them. please let me know. They have not shown up on either Amazon OR ebay. Both sellers do have numerous copies but none of them have C.C./subtitles
Thank you
 

officerripley said:
Can you access YouTube? Some of the movies on there have subtitles; some of the movies are free and some you can rent for $3.99.
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Yes, I have tried youtube. No luck there. I have also, tried Amazon PRIME videos. Thank you, anyway.
 

senior chef said:
Yes, I have tried youtube. No luck there. I have also, tried Amazon PRIME videos. Thank you, anyway.
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Oh, okay, because I found Witness for the Prosec. on YouTube, I think it's the one you want, it's $3.99: youtube.com/watch?v=IPSo5_9kW6s. (You'll have to copy and paste that link in the search box on YouTube or go to YouTube and type "Witness for the Prosecution full movie" in the search bar. YouTube won't allow a link you can just click on at other sites for movies that cost to rent; it's a YouTube policy, not Senior Forum's fault.)

If you decide to rent it, you'd click on the little gear icon in the lower right-hand corner of the screen & then set up your subtitles, I think.
 
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I MAY have found a BLUE RAY copy of Death on the Nile that supposedly has subtitles. At least Amazon customer service claims it has. I had previously bought that film 4 times from Amazon (NOT BLUE RAY) but none of them had subtitles.
 
I assume you are going to watch them from a DVD on your TV. There should be an audio output jack on the back of the TV. It could drive an amp with an output for headphones or external speakers. Some TVs will just drive the headphones.
 
Wish i could help ya!
I too, have some GREAT old movies in VHS and a wonderful VHS/DVD player under my "streaming" TV! I'd LOVE to watch them but I am useless when it comes to hooking up electronics! (My DVD's were all stolen!)
No help but I sure wish you luck!
 
Chet, Yes, I already do that. I use my DVD player, out to TV, out again to the amp and from there to headphones. my hearing is such that I do not hear high pitched sounds, especially voices.
 
senior chef said:
Chet, Yes, I already do that. I use my DVD player, out to TV, out again to the amp and from there to headphones. my hearing is such that I do not hear high pitched sounds, especially voices.
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Same here. We always turn on closed captioning for the hearing impaired or English subtitles, or whatever else they call them, even if it's an American movie. Otherwise I only understand half the dialogue and wind up asking my wife, over and over, "What did he say?"... "What did she say?"

We watched a Dutch movie last night that was subtitled for all the... whatever language they speak in the Netherlands, so I could understand the dialogue when it they spoke the foreign language, but they also spoke some English with a British accent, which wasn't subtitled, and I had no idea what they were saying during those parts.
 
Some of the problem could be with the movies themselves. One of my pet peeves is that actors sometimes speak softly as in private conversations and don't emote like stage actors do so the back rows of the theater can hear them. If you can hear news anchors on TV pretty well, the movies could be part of the problem.
 

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