Originally Posted by SNA1K
...and they may have a permanent Mandarin/Canton/other subtitle track displaying and/or the silhouette of a person walking out of the theater to get some popcorn....
It's not so bad these days - more likely a copy of a preview DVD sent to the press (or one of the people who helps decide who gets Oscars) that made it out to Taiwan, got copied and augmented with Mandarin/Cantonese/Arabic subtitles (sometimes all three at the same time).
I got a copy of The Two Towers from an outlet in Nairobi a few months before it came out officially (I couldn't wait) and it was perfect. Of course, I bought the original when it came out and then bought it again when the extended edition came out.