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Thanks James! Definitely worth checking it out.

Could be interesting. It's probably closer to A$20 at the current exchange rate, and I'll tempt fate by suggesting that the interpreters doing the subtitles would have to work pretty hard to be worse than whoever translated the French dialogue in the fansub. (I'm pretty sure they used Google and didn't bother - or didn't know how - to address the syntax, tenses or gendered pronouns!) You know, with the right software, I could probably make a few tweaks... My French doesn't extend far beyond, "Excuse moi. Je suis Australienne. Je n'est pas apprende la Francais. Parlez vous Anglais, s'il vous plais?" but I could correct the obvious stuff.

Hi all!

Originally posted by GrumpyGhostOwl Could be interesting. It's probably closer to A$20 at the current exchange rate, and I'll tempt fate by suggesting that the interpreters doing the subtitles would have to work pretty hard to be worse than whoever translated the French dialogue in the fansub. (I'm pretty sure they used Google and didn't bother - or didn't know how - to address the syntax, tenses or gendered pronouns!).

Well, yeah. That's pretty much what I meant when I said of that translation, "An English speaking fan took that translation, ran it through a translation program, and these subtitles were generated from that translation, with no additional editing to correct grammatical errors, odd phrasing, or to remove occasional bit that did not translate ("Non' and "Monsieur" appear a few times, and at least one sentence remains completely in French)." I wouldn't risk challenging the translators for this DVD release to do worse. I've seen some of these where they might be using English words, but they aren't forming English sentences, and some where not all the words are actually English. With those, it can be a real challenge to try to figure out what they're trying to say. On the other end of the spectrum, I've seem some (Alas, not many) with subtitles that are in excellent English, and a number that have decent English (Or at least not so poor that you can't figure out what they're trying to say). It's a real hit-and-miss situation with these discs. You pay your money and hope for the best. Fortunately, this particular release is not overly expensive. I have ordered one, mostly to see how good or bad a job they did with it. I'll let you know the results when it arrives (Which might be a while, since that free shipping usually means Sea Mail). James

Hi all! My copy of the Infini-t Force DVD arrived in the mail the other day, so I'm now in a position to comment on the subtitles. In short, they have a strictly middle-of-the-road quality translation, roughly on par with the awkward English of the earlier Japanese-to-French-to-English Translation we already have seen, only this time sourced from a Japanese-to-Chinese-to-English translation. If you have some idea of what they're saying, you can generally make the mental leaps to fill in and fix the gaps, but there are some "Where did that come from?" moments. So, if you're looking for something that has the English grammar and syntax you'd expect of a native speaker, and can't stand the idea of anything less than perfection, then this is not the release for you. If you're willing to cut them some slack on the translation and want it more to have a high quality hard copy of the movie (Which is more than we're getting from Viz...), then this is a good, cost effective way to attain that goal. I hope this helps! James