Thanks a lot xach
This LJ is now the #1 Google hit for "Textless Material".
And since lediva asked: its purpose is to make localization easier. Exported versions of the show can overlay the clips with titles in any language they like, and then use them to replace the matching slices of video track in the original show.
I learned this via Google before I accidentally broke the internet's ability to learn this via Google. Sorry internet
I stand by my theory that this was at the end of the ep I got from iTunes because that's where it happens to reside in the source media, as a service to foreign studios, and whoever prepared the show for iTunes either forgot, didn't know, or didn't bother to crop it.
And since lediva asked: its purpose is to make localization easier. Exported versions of the show can overlay the clips with titles in any language they like, and then use them to replace the matching slices of video track in the original show.
I learned this via Google before I accidentally broke the internet's ability to learn this via Google. Sorry internet
I stand by my theory that this was at the end of the ep I got from iTunes because that's where it happens to reside in the source media, as a service to foreign studios, and whoever prepared the show for iTunes either forgot, didn't know, or didn't bother to crop it.