Tell me about it! It was so heavily rumored for such a long time that I sold off my DVD when thinning out my collection, and now I'm Ghost World-less. It's no way to live.

As I recall, it was kind of a crappy, edge-enhanced DVD. I still have it, but can't bring myself to watch it again.

Would that could afford an OPPO, but the price of the player and the mod to she nearly gives me a heart attack. Why do some many French discs do this? It seems weird as hell, I don't know of any other regions which do. I suppose I could also buy the disc, rip the audio and video, and then burn it back to a new disc, but that'd be a colossal pain.

because...french people.

I wish Criterion would prioritize silent films. I'm grateful for the Chaplins but those are kind of low-hanging fruit, prefer more German works.

Bela Tarr

Damnation
Werckmeister Harmonies
Satantango

(Apologies for not replying to this earlier)

While I can't say with 100% certainty that the film is not supposed to have them, these passages were never subtitled on the VHS, the Pioneer SE Laserdisc, or the first DVD release. And to me, every single scene just plays better without them
If the film were all in Spanish it would be one thing. But one of the themes of the film is the culture barrier that they are crossing as much as the geographical one. It also comes across as a much more adult film if you have to either know the language or be able to figure things out by context as the characters have to do. Having everything spelled out explicitly via the subs just seems to dumb it all down to me.

Anyways- I finally figured out how to utilize this feature and it worked like a charm, completely pushing the subs out of the image area. I can FINALLY watch one of my favorite actions films of all time again without any distractions!
Absolutely love this DVD player. Worth every penny.