farmerjoe

None of the Watch instantly movies are captioned. Unless you count the foreign films, that are subtitled in English. Such as "Pan's Labyrinth" (I recommend renting that one by the way)

I recently discovered that you can download the subtitle files separately from various subtitle websites. The trick is getting the subtitles on the screen at the same time as the Netflix Movie. By using the software I've mentioned previously, I was able to make it work. It works great but there's a small problem; synchronization. I've found it difficult to sync the movie with the subtitles, I have enough hearing ability to make it watchable but not always enough patience. When I want to sit and relax with a movie I generally don't have the patience to strain at listening and fiddle with the subtitles.

Netflix doesn't provide closed captioning because they do not care. It's not required by law and they don't feel they'll make a significant amount of money from it. They misrepresent the captioning and subtitle information about DVDs and when I complain they pass the buck. If we want captions on online content we need to either do it ourselves, or wait for a competitor to start doing it, then if we're lucky, companies like netflix will also provide captions from fear of loosing customers, though there's not enough of us to make that likely.