LIKE the correspondent 'Name and Address Supplied' whose letter headlined, 'Missing loss of Nicam', appeared in the South China Morning Post, on September 8, I too am peeved that although there are many non-Cantonese programmes being shown on Cable, they are more often than not dubbed into Cantonese, but this viewer can seldom find the English soundtrack.
It seems beyond the bounds of comprehension that the non-Cantonese viewer is not adequately catered for when there is this system called Nicam.
By all means let the majority of the viewers listen in dubbed Cantonese but do, for heaven's sake, allow the original language soundtrack to go out at the same time too as it is totally unreasonable to fork out $208 a month and then, all too often, find an intriguing programme that is clearly dubbed into the local language, and then be unable to listen to it in its original language.
Wharf Cable owes it to all its paying viewers that all its channels are capable of carrying Nicam - and using that facility whenever there is a foreign language dubbed into Cantonese since at the present time, non-Cantonese speakers are very much more restricted in the channels from which they can get education and entertainment.
ANTHONY R. C. GREEN Happy Valley
