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| Registered: April 14, 2007 |  Posts: 415 |
| | Posted: | | | | I haven't come across this before and Google wasn't much help, but maybe some of our international users have had this problem. I put in to my PC a bonus disk from my James Bond DVD Ultimate collection. I start playing it and the menu appears in Chinese! Actually could be any asian language, as I don't know the symbols. The same thing occurs in VLC, PowerDVD and Windows Media Player, so I'm thinking it must be a system thing. I'm using Win 7, and I've checked every language/region setting I can find, and they all say English/US. There are no other installed languages. I put the main disk in to my PC and the menu appears in English. I put the bonus disk in to my wife's Win 7 laptop, and the menu appears in English. Any ideas at all?  |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 |  Posts: 1,536 |
| | Posted: | | | | At least part of it is in Japanese, other than that I have no idea. | | | | Hans |
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| Registered: December 10, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | The language settings are messed up somewhere. Have you tried changing the language settings, then changing them back? |
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| Registered: February 23, 2009 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,580 |
| | Posted: | | | | This is becoming increasingly common, especially with Japanese (it's all Japanese, not Chinese).
Usually there are "prefered language" settings in DVD/BD players, be they stand-alone or software players. By changing those prefered language settings (depending on player, it could be called standard language, menu language, etc) sometimes the entire menu, available audio tracks and subtitles change.
All you need to do is change yours to English and it should work in English. I do it all the time the other way around to have Japanese subtitles on my non-region free BD player. | | | Blu-ray collection
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| Registered: January 1, 2009 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,087 |
| | Posted: | | | | Parhaps you're unlucky and this Bonus disc has just a japenese menu. |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting VirusPil: Quote:
Parhaps you're unlucky and this Bonus disc has just a japenese menu. Nope - Quoting jmbox: Quote:
I put the bonus disk in to my wife's Win 7 laptop, and the menu appears in English.
It does sound like a language setting issue as Taro suggests. What's strange though is that the main disc defaults to English while the bonus is in Japanese. |
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| Registered: December 10, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quite likely the main disc is fairly region specific while the bonus disc is the same worldwide. I've seen a few sets like that. |
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| Registered: January 1, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,087 |
| | Posted: | | | | If Taro's suggestion doesn't work you can try to find the menu track on the DVD and start it manual. (If there are different tracks for the different menu languages) |
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| Registered: April 14, 2007 | | Posts: 415 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks for all the responses! Quoting Ace_of_Sevens: Quote:
Quite likely the main disc is fairly region specific while the bonus disc is the same worldwide. I've seen a few sets like that. Yes, main disc is region 1, 3. The bonus disc is regions 1, 2, 3, 4. And you clued me in on what the issue could be. Turns out my issue was AnyDVD having a default region of region 2. On the main disc, it chose R1 and everything is fine. On the bonus disc it chose R2 and decided I *must* be in Japan... (even if I set the system settings to be British). So I'm not sure how universal this bonus disc is.. |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 | | Posts: 1,536 |
| | Posted: | | | | To be universal, the disc is likely NTSC (since NTSC equipment is more picky than PAL), and the combination of Region 2 and NTSC would logically point to Japan. | | | | Hans |
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| Registered: February 23, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,580 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Staid S Barr: Quote:
To be universal, the disc is likely NTSC (since NTSC equipment is more picky than PAL), and the combination of Region 2 and NTSC would logically point to Japan. Correct! Nice deduction. Japan is indeed the only NTSC country in the Region 2 area | | | Blu-ray collection
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| Registered: April 2, 2007 |  Posts: 156 |
| | Posted: | | | | Have you tried: (In PowerDVD)  Might be independent of Region (?) | | | | Karsten | | | | Last edited: by karstenp |
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