SP DVD Library in Your Language

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Dear Devotees,

 

Hare Krishna! The third replication of the Srila Prabhupada DVD Library is

selling briskly. We expect that it will be sold out by the end of the year.

Therefore, we are preparing to invest in version 3. Version 2 debuted with

19 languages subtitled - 10 complete and 9 incomplete. There is room for

only 30 languages on the dvd. Important languages are missing entirely, but

we will insert whatever we get, first-come, first-serve. Our subtitle web

page shows the status of many languages - www.itvproductions.net/subtitles.

No one has volunteered to coordinate the translations into Portuguese,

Hindi, Kannada, Bengali, etc., and French, Indonesian, Thai, German,

Hungarian, Italian, Finnish, etc. are incomplete. The opportunity to show

these videos of Srila Prabhupada to your countrymen in their own language

may not be repeated for many years. Please do not allow this chance to

escape. Devotees in Malaysia, China, Estonia, Lithuania, Croatia, etc.

have, in some cases, single-handedly submitted all the translations. Their

countries are in our 100% category. If you think that "someone else" is

going to respond, don't be so sure. In Mayapur this year, a announcement

was made after the morning program to nearly 1500 devotees to meet me in

front of the alter if they were interested in seeing their language

subtitled. Only one person showed up. Subtitling is a time-consuming and

laborious process. We priced the cost if we went to an outside vendor, and

each language - without doing the translating, only the insertions - would

cost $13,000. ITV is bringing this offer to the table for free, but we

can't do it without your participation in the translating. Don't wait until

the last minute; we won't be able to "slip in" the subtitles. We need lots

of time. The deadline is October 31st . That's only about 200 days. You

may want to coordinate a team of translators and pass all the drafts by an

editor. The way that the Spanish (100%) translating got done was by one

devotee taking it upon himself to persuade others to do the rough

translating which he then carefully reviewed before submitting. That devotee

wasn't even initiated yet he understood the incredible value to having Srila

Prabhupada presented in his language. ITV's job in authoring all these

languages also requires a team. If you are interested in learning how to

author dvd's and do this tedious work while living at the ITV studios in

Topanga, California, please let me know. (Sorry but we no longer can sponsor

visas, so you'll have to figure that end out for yourself if that is a

problem.)

 

 

 

Your servant,

Nrsimhananda dasa, ITV

 

PS The Srila Prabhupada Memory DVD series Part 1 and Part 2 is now also

available directly from ITV.