Could these be the people responsible for the Dutch subs?

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Could these be the people responsible for the Dutch subs?

Post by Gonstead » Sat Sep 07, 2013 8:05 am

I was skipping through some Ocean dubbed episodes which contained Dutch subtitles and happened to notice this little blurb at the end of one of the episodes.

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This was the first time I noticed this appearing on any of the episodes I own, so I did a little research and ended up with this site via Google.

http://www.vsi.tv/

Looking through the site, it seems these just may be the ones responsible for those subtitles.

Thoughts?
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Re: Could these be the people responsible for the Dutch subs

Post by sangofe » Sat Sep 07, 2013 8:36 am

Yeah, I never understood why they subbed the dub? Why not just show the japanese version if you're gonna show something subbed...

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Re: Could these be the people responsible for the Dutch subs

Post by Gonstead » Sat Sep 07, 2013 8:37 am

sangofe wrote:Yeah, I never understood why they subbed the dub? Why not just show the japanese version if you're gonna show something subbed...
It was probably cheaper.
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Re: Could these be the people responsible for the Dutch subs

Post by ThunderPX » Sat Sep 07, 2013 7:27 pm

Back in the day, it was pretty common for a lot of cartoons to just air in English with subtitles. Shows that were licensed directly from other languages were usually dubbed though, for whatever reason. Maybe it's because English is the first foreign language Dutch children learn in school.
On top of that, DBZ first aired here on Cartoon Network, so they presumably just got all the programming from the American network and localised it accordingly.
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Re: Could these be the people responsible for the Dutch subs

Post by SUnicron » Sat Sep 07, 2013 7:31 pm

I think it's just how these international licensing deals work out. Besides, back in those days it was very common for cartoons in the Netherlands to be English with Dutch subtitles. Nowadays everything is dubbed (ugh..)

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