I am in Norway, but an English speaker. I can also read Norwegian easily. When selecting movies in iTunes, the descriptions come up in random languages. I struggle with Danish, Swedish, and Finnish which often appear in the descriptions of movies. I would prefer to force the descriptions to English, but can't figure out how to do that.
The settings I have:
Apple TV Language = English (UK)
Region = Norway
Any ideas?
The descriptions/synopses for iTunes Store movies are available in languages as supplied by the studios for your country or region (as set by your Apple ID billing address). The default would be to match the interface/device language, if available. Secondary would be the main language of the country or region, again if available. If neither are available, then the country of origin seems the most likely, or else the language of the local distributor studio representation.
If the distributor studio included neither English nor Norwegian descriptions for movies in the Norwegian iTunes Store, then they missed out on a very basic marketing tool, and thereby revenue.
You can give feedback to Apple (Feedback - Apple TV App - Apple), but change has to come from the supplying studios. Apple hasn’t made localized or English descriptions mandatory so far.
You can contact the responsible studio, see copyright line for that movie on its Details page. But there are much easier methods to accessing an English description, if you seek it.
The descriptions/synopses for iTunes Store movies are available in languages as supplied by the studios for your country or region (as set by your Apple ID billing address). The default would be to match the interface/device language, if available. Secondary would be the main language of the country or region, again if available. If neither are available, then the country of origin seems the most likely, or else the language of the local distributor studio representation.
If the distributor studio included neither English nor Norwegian descriptions for movies in the Norwegian iTunes Store, then they missed out on a very basic marketing tool, and thereby revenue.
You can give feedback to Apple (Feedback - Apple TV App - Apple), but change has to come from the supplying studios. Apple hasn’t made localized or English descriptions mandatory so far.
You can contact the responsible studio, see copyright line for that movie on its Details page. But there are much easier methods to accessing an English description, if you seek it.
Descriptions of iTunes Movies in the wrong language - Apple TV
