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OSC, mine does that too. Generally about once a disk. Right now though, I'm using my PStwo because I don't have long enough cables for my regular player. It doesn't do that.
(Of course, now that I've said this, the next disk I put in will pop up a subtitle.)
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Actually, since I work in this industry, when I discovered it to be the case a year or two ago, I asked some of my colleagues in the postproduction end of things what the deal was.
It has to do with the DVD standards - the standards are pretty extensive on how they regulate the various things DVD's can do, like skipping chapters or changing angles, or giving random results of certain menu choices, but there's enough going on that there's some vague areas.
Essentially, the subtitles are set up the same way the audio tracks are; you program them to be on track 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. Naturally, for an American market, you set audio track one to be either the English audio track, or possibly the original language track. Track 2 might be the Chinese dubbed version or the version with the Director talking about making the movie. And so on. So you do the same with subtitles. Maybe French first for the Canadian print, or English, or whatever.
But the confusion comes in in that there is no track 0 for audio, but there is for subtitles. Subtitle track 0 is subtitles off, and is supposed to be default. But many DVD player manufacturers, particularly the ones made by off-brands or the inexpensive models made by the big names, made the logical error of setting the default on the DVD player to be Audio track 1, and also Subtitle track 1.
As such, when you put in a new DVD, it defaults incorrectly to subtitle track 1, instead of 0. After you've corrected the DVD player so that it knows to use track 0, it will remember your settings for that disk to be your default. Some players have a memory that recalls all the settings you've set for each disk, so when it's an old disk you put in, it recalls that your settings were for track 0 and leaves it off, but new disks always go back to the goofy default.
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