Open letter to Crative Labs regarding lack of support for soft subtit

Dear Creative Labs
I'm a proud owner of a Creative Zen Vision W. In this day and age you either have to be a millionaire or truly love videos to buy one; I belong to the secound group.
We need support for soft subtitles in Creative Zen Vision, Vision W, Vision:M and so forth. Simply put. It can be done with 0 lines of code in the firmware source, and you know it. Everyone are sick and tired of trying to find workarounds.
We are videolovers; We are not audiophiles who needs an alternati've to iPod that happens to play footage of our kids practicing soccer and show pictures of our fishing tri
ps.
Treat us with some respect. People have been begging for soft subs support since the Vision was released in 2005, and you haven't done **bleep**.
I tried to write a "down to earth" letter here, but you're truly pissing me off.
Yours truly (untill I discover another portable media player that supports soft subs),
Daniel AndersenMessage Edited by Otaku on 02-2-200703:3 PM

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