Ordinary Gweilo

Here’s a strange thing.

If you go to the cinema in Hong Kong and watch a foreign or Chinese film there will be both English and Chinese subtitles.  If the same film is shown on TV you also get two sets of subtitles.  If you watch a VCD you will again see two sets of subtitles.

However, if you watch it on DVD you will most likely get a wider choice of subtitles (and the option to switch them off).  However, you cannot have two different languages shown simultaneously, as you would in the cinema, on TV or on a cheap old VCD. Which is a bit odd, really.

Or perhaps someone makes a DVD player that offers this function?  It can’t be difficult!