Super Netflix is currently the best and perhaps the only solution for custom subtitles. Custom subtitles are a great option for when Netflix just doesn’t seem to have subtitles in your language. Most apps that took advantage of Netflix’s code have been removed from the official app stores in recent months.
Netflix offers thousands of movies and TV shows as streaming video through its Watch Instantly service. Netflix members can also turn on subtitles for some titles. This feature is great for the hearing impaired, those who do not understand the original language of a video or to make sure you can understand the dialogue when watching a movie at low volume. However, the subtitle function is a recent addition to the Netflix Watch Instantly service. As of February 2011, only 30 percent of the videos on Netflix have removable subtitles, though Netflix plans to have subtitles for 80 percent of its titles by the end of 2011.
Open your Internet browser, and visit netflix.com.
Log in to your Netflix account.
Click the 'Watch Instantly' tab on the Netflix home page that appears after you have logged in to your account.
Find a movie or TV show you want to watch with subtitles, and click the blue 'Play' button beneath its poster image.
Wait for the Netflix video player to load. Press the 'Subtitles' button. Select the language you want to display as subtitles from the menu that appears.
Tips
Subtitles can be turned off by clicking the 'Subtitles' button and selecting 'Off' from the menu that appears.
Warnings
Many foreign films on Netflix Watch Instantly were added before Netflix supported removable subtitles. The subtitles on these titles are 'burnt in' to the image and can not be removed or changed.
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How do I activate Netflix subtitles on a Samsung TV?
- I have a vizio brand tv. Can I access subtitles on this tv?
- I had the same problem with a Samsung Blu-Ray player. Come to find out.....you can't!
As of 2007, subtitles and CC are not mandated by law with the new digital content. (Congress and the FCC really dropped the ball on this one) Samsung has chosen not to support subtitles for streaming content simply because it's not legally required.Bottom line......they don't 'have' to - and aren't going to, until forced to do so.- Um, subtitles for streaming content have *never* been required by the FCC. The FCC does not have the authority or jurisdiction to regulate streaming content. Until recently, Netflix did not even have subtitles available, regardless of your player. In fact, this is not even Samsung's issue. Netflix develops the app for Samsung's internet@TV platform. They simply have not updated it for subtitles yet. I'm sure they will, eventually.
- I have a playstation 3 and I have close caption almost in every movie so if you dont know dont talk you moron!!!
- The problem is from Samsung, I have a blurauy Samsung and is the only that cant show the subtitle. They dont have it even in the menu.
- That is correct subtitles do work with ps3 and I heard also with sony bluray, im sorry that I bought a samsung dvd !!! :-(
- Hey dies your RTR stand for Roll Tide Roll? If so ROLL TIDE, National Champs!!!
Anyways I am having troubles getting the subtitles to play on my Vizio, sucks real bad, ROLL TIDE!!!!
- I really wish they had them too, but since it's a paid for service and not public it's really none of the FCC's business. Plus if netflix added them for every video, that would take time and staff - which we would see as in increase in prices.
- Check whether the video has the subtitles :
- Hello, I would start by checking if your movie/program has any subtitles included with it. In the following link, it will give you a link to check for that and also, it will show you how to show the subtitles:Another point to take into consideration is the fact that the subtitles work only on certain platforms. Check your configuration and see if it is compatible with any of those platforms. For the platforms that are not included, I would think it is a matter of time until some apps/updates are added to get this functionality.TV wise, most recent tvs have a section in the settings for subtitles. Go into the settings of your TV and set the subtitles to auto. Once the subtitles are on auto, they will show. Also usually the remote control has an option for turning subtitles on and also if there is a movie with more than one language, you can choose which one you want to play. I would say with netflix it would be a matter of turning subtitles on the remote control and if the subtitle stream is included, it will show.I would say, you would benefit from visiting the following site and read the comments there, they are focused on what you are asking:Also you can visit the samsung forum here: