Activate Sky Ticket subtitles: How to find films to read

No matter whether films and series in the original version or in the German dubbed version: Subtitles are particularly important for the hearing impaired and deaf. Others also like to watch films in their original sound and read along with them. You can find out whether and how you can activate subtitles with Sky Ticket in this article.

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More and more viewers wish to see films and series in the original version - but would also like to have subtitles. From Netflix and Amazon Prime Video you are used to being able to activate subtitles for most content. Even on linear television (ARD, ZDF, RTL, ProSieben, Sat1 and Co.), stations offer subtitles via teletext. With Sky Ticket there is unfortunately little content with overlaid texts and these are also difficult to find. For example, some series that start simultaneously in the USA and Germany only have subtitles until the German dubbed version is available.

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Sky Ticket: How to activate the subtitles

We explain how you can check whether content is subtitled and how to switch on the subtitles.

• Log in with your Sky ticket account.
• Search for the content you want and start playback.
• The film or episode is opened in the Sky player (no longer in the browser, as before).
• In the upper right corner you see the symbol for subtitles. Click on it and you will find out in which language the audio track and subtitles are available.
• Select the language you want.

Sky Ticket and the subtitles

In the past, there were several versions of Sky Ticket for films and series in foreign languages. So you had up to three versions of a strip or episode, which were also marked accordingly:

• UT "Original title" OV for content in foreign languages ​​with subtitles in the original language, UT (German) "Original title" (OV) for content in foreign languages ​​with German subtitles and "German title" for content in German without subtitles.
• Sky has changed this and now (as of May 2019) offers all versions as a single content.
• Advantage : As you know it from other providers, the content now only appears once, you no longer have two or three versions of the same episode.
• Disadvantage : Even if the meaning of the headings was not very clear to everyone, you could at least see which versions had subtitles. You could also search for "UT" and find a list of content with subtitles.
• There is currently no special labeling for content with subtitles (as of May 2019). That means: you have to start the desired film or episode and check whether there are any subtitles for it.

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