My mistake, I probably misremebered with disney, disney doesn't have CC. We'll try the CC next for Korean and see if it does the same thing or not.

Unfortunately Korean doesn't come with CC captions so not really an option.

So the fact that every other streaming app works fine and apple doesn't is the fault of the TV and not apple? Yeah, totally makes sense.

That would make sense if it was only subtitles showing up late (lagging) and then blinking out the moment they're meant to go off anyway. But we also have subtitles that appear to show up on time, and blink out immediately. It would also make more sense if the subtitles were showing up randomly late. If a subtitle is meant to be up for 2 seconds, lag would mean it would randomly show up at any point during those 2 seconds. Meaning you wouldn't just see subs blinking on and off, you'd see subs that come on and just don't last as long as they should. e.g. it's a .5 second late so it's only up for 1.5 seconds making it a quick read. These are always blink on and off.

If it was a TV issue, then Netflix, Disney and other services wouldn't work fine. If those work and Apple doesn't, then it's because Apple produces a crappy app.

A year and a half ago I reported the issues with Ted Lasso's subtitles. They made a point of having a customer care person or whatever call me. I spent time explaining the issues we had with the subtitles. It's a year and a half later, and it's still a mess.

I've no interest in buying an Apple TV.

Yeah but I'd like native app support so that it could be used from within the app on a smart TV. Just let me choose more than one subtitle and display them. Let me worry about screen real estate if you think it won't be optimal.

I can't imagine it. We have a TCL smart TV we use the app through. Also subtitles on Disney and Netflix don't have any issues. If there are performance issues, it'd just be a result of just poor work by Apple.

Haven't done that yet because we'd need English for the Korean bits and English and Korean for the Japanese bits. My kingdom for a streaming service that would support 2 subtitles on screen natively.

We watch on a TCL Smart TV through the Apple TV App. It should be more than powerful enough to display subtitles. This happens both through wifi and while having an ethernet cable into the back of the TV, so it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the connection itself.

I never said you weren't getting a hospitalization spike. But if 100,000 people got covid today and in the US 1000 went to the hospital, then the US might only think they've got 1000 new cases because that's all they track. In Korea they still track positive tests regardless of whether or not you went to the hospital. That's why certain countries are still showing large numbers like this because they're tracking all cases, not just the ones that wind up in hospital.

Because they're still testing. Other countries probably have this much as well but they're not doing that much official testing and tracking.

Just left Korea for the UK. It's completely different here. If I get COVID here, and it isn't serious enough for hospitalisation, I don't think anyone is even going to know or record it.

Also population density doesn't help.

While that certainly would have helped, the lack of awareness absolutely was a major factor in this happening. In other countries people would have been uncomfortable long before the crowd density reached that level.

Fact is, everyone would feel it was fine to keep doing that simply because they were so used to it and so accustomed to seeing that many people around them all the time at things like this. We've talked to people who have gone to the fireworks before and they've told us that when it was over, getting back into the subway was exactly like this, they felt like they floated down the stairs because there were so many people. We always avoided it because I knew it would be a mess.

The unfortunate thing in Korea is that due to the population density and small size of the country, most special events are like this. Things like the annual fireworks, cherry blossoms, and even early days when Ikea opened, it was a nightmare.

People there really wouldn't have had a sense that 'oh this is too many people'. The difference between what would be considered a 'normal' crowd and something leading to a crowd crush/collapse, is really only a small percentage of bodies.