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MBC 2, formerly called Channel 2, is a Saudi state-owned free-to-air movie channel owned by MBC Group.In its beginnings, it was broadcasting films and TV programs subtitled in Arabic, but after the launch of MBC 4, the channel became specialized in films only.
The animated shows currently airing on Nickelodeon Arabia are in Arabic and English. The live-action TeenNick shows originally aired in English with Arabic subtitles. However, original social shows produced by Nickelodeon Arabia's own studio, such as Shoof Kids and Jamaatna, were also in Arabic. [citation needed]
Subtitles exist in two forms; open subtitles are 'open to all' and cannot be turned off by the viewer; closed subtitles are designed for a certain group of viewers, and can usually be turned on or off or selected by the viewer – examples being teletext pages, U.S. Closed captions (608/708), DVB Bitmap subtitles, DVD or Blu-ray subtitles.
The show was first broadcast in the area in English with Arabic subtitles on networks like Showtime Arabia and Dubai's One TV, where it received a following in the area. The show was finally dubbed into Arabic in September 2005, under the title "Al-Shamshoon" (Arabic: آل شمشون, romanized: ʾĀl Shamshūn, lit. 'The Shamshoons').
It is also offered with Greek subtitles in Cyprus. [21] Cartoon Network MENA's English-language website can be found at CartoonNetworkME.com, Another site, CartoonNetworkMENA.com, launched around the same time and serves as a hub where users can choose between the English- or Arabic-language versions.
Amara, formerly known as Universal Subtitles, is a web-based non-profit project created by the Participatory Culture Foundation that hosts and allows user-subtitled video to be accessed and created. Users upload video through many major video hosting websites such as YouTube , Vimeo , [ 1 ] and Ustream to subtitle.
The channel is one of the only available in Arabic (the other being Spacetoon), with no choice but to switch to English or any other language. This is due to the fact that the channel is a free-to-air TV channel aimed solely at an Arabic-speaking audience. The channel broadcasts a line of Cartoon Network's own shows dubbed in English.
Anis Ebeid (1909–1988) is an Egyptian translator, to born to a Christian family, [1] known for Arabic language subtitling of American movies. He was a pioneer in Arabic subtitling in the Middle East. He graduated from Engineering college, and then travelled to Paris to study for the master's degree in Engineering. He was the first in the ...