Just watched the first episode of this. I found it to be quite good. Quite a few characters were introduced in the ep, hopefully we'll get to know them better as the show progresses.
A nice solid episode to start. Let's hope they can keep it up
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@UPR Hmm, I don't really have any idea why that's happening.... But I know the op/ed are normally hardsubbed so that the karoke effect syncs properly. Have you checked to see if the player has disabled the subs by default to start with?
That or try another player... the h.264 version worked fine here on Media player classic.