Hypp TV is now known as "unifi TV"... It seems that TM wants to use the "unifi" branding across their services, including broadband, mobile (Unifi Mobile) and TV (Unifi TV)...

But then, do many Singaporean watch Indonesian programmes anyway? It seems that they're targeting Indonesian viewers (e.g. workers) in Singapore.

Btw... Do you have any idea why those Asia feed for those English language pay TV channels (e.g. Fox, A&E Networks, HBO, Viacom, Time Warner...) do not provide English subtitles? Instead, only non-English subtitles are available. I believe there is viewers that prefer to watch shows in English subtitles even the programme is already in English.

Also, there are some pay TVs in other Asian countries where the subtitle language of their native mother tongue language is not available for those English pay channels. For example, HBO HD channel in Myanmar's DTH pay TV does not have Burmese subtitles at all (they use Asia feed, same as what you see on Singtel/Starhub TV but without Chinese subtitles of course). Yes, English movie with no subtitles at all.
So I do wonder how would the majority of the people there would be able understand the dialogues of the movie? Only the ones that is well educated in English will be able to understand the dialogues... In other example, some movies that airs on Fox Movies/Fox Action Movies has Burmese subtitles, some movie no subtitles at all.

Any idea about that? Or you got any friend that knows the reason of not having English subtitles, even the channel is in English?

It's okay, no worries. Thanks for your reply.

If the programme is in English, the scripts shall be also in English, isn't? So why can't they provide English subtitles too? Or, once they got the timecode of the subtitles after being translated into their native country language, they can just change the translated subtitle language's text into English by following the script, isn't?

Certain countries that has no native subtitle language, so let say some of the pay channels that Sri Lanka pay TV offers (AXN, Sony Channel, Warner TV, HBO,...) doesn't even have English subtitles, so what if majority of the viewers/subscribers can't understand English well/at all? They may struggle to understand what is the programme about, or not even want to watch it anymore, isn't? How oh liddat? Viewership will be greatly affected, isn't?

And so this is why most of the pay channel's Chinese subtitle are in Traditional Chinese instead of Simplified Chinese (e.g. National Geographic, Fox Movies, Fox Life, AXN, etc.)? Does it means, to have both Simplified and Traditional Chinese subtitles, subtitler company have to pay double? I thought it can be easily translated by just a click of a button? Sounds like doesn't make sense.... And also, the Chinese subtitle on "HBO Malaysia" on Astro is Traditional Chinese (I assume it is the same as Asia feed). So which country/pay TV that HBO wants to provide Simplified Chinese then?

As for Chinese subtitles for pay channels, is it true that the main reason why only Traditional Chinese subtitles are offered in almost all English pay channels is because Taiwan/Hong Kong sub-contracted those subtitler companies to produce the subtitles, so Malaysia and Singapore pay TV are just pinjam over their produced subtitles, and that ultimately save costs because it tends to divides the costs among countries that wants Chinese subtitles to be available on their pay TV platform? As far as I know, Blue Ant Ent, Blue Ant Extreme, Warner TV channels is in Simplified Chinese, does it means Taiwan and Hong Kong doesn't have these channels on their pay TV operators, which explains why it is only in Simplified Chinese because Malaysia (unifi TV) and Singapore pay TV do provide this channel?

Is that true that the channel provider must know what are the subtitle languages that a pay TV operator wants to provide to viewers? For example la, Singapore's Starhub TV also want add Malay subtitle option to all Fox Network Group channels, but the Malay subtitles already available out there and it is produced for Malaysia, so does it means Starhub got to pay for Malay subtitles as well, because Starhub is using the subtitle? OR, does it means that once a pay TV operator had an agreement with content provider to provide TV channel/content for customers/viewers, instantly they'll have access to ALL subtitles available from the channel provider, for example Malay, Chinese, Thai, Indonesian, Burmese, Korean, and so actually the pay TV operator can actually choose to provide ALL subtitle languages available to their viewers, even if the majority of the viewers wouldn't even understand the language (for example, Starhub to provide Thai subtitles to all Fox Network Group channels).

For India, do you mean that the sub-contracted companies staff would transcript those English programmes to have English subtitles by themselves? Wah, I can see their effort there....

Thanks.

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