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What do current public Amazon, Apple and Disney delivery documents say about forced narratives, textless picture, and supplemental or alternate packages, and where do they differ?

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Partially verified: the curator re-read S17, S19, S20; S18, S21, S22 were not re-read by the curator and rest on the producer's pinned reading. Amazon has two delivery vocabularies: the Amazon MGM Studios manual uses non-subtitled picture plus separate FN and SDH-with/without-FN files and requires a fully textless master when 30% or more of the programme is texted; Prime Video Video Central (licensed content) asks for semi-textless picture (creative text allowed, no burnt-in subtitles) with FN as separate timed text for every dubbed language. Amazon's textless definition removes FN, text over picture and graphics text, which is not the same test as Apple's textless_master attribute (producer reading of Apple). Curator qualifications: Partially verified: the curator re-read S17, S19, S20; S18, S21, S22 were not re-read by the curator and rest on the producer's pinned reading. Curator GET 2026-10-23 of the sources not re-read (mechanical source evidence, not semantic verification): S18: HTTP 200, bytes equal to the producer pin; S21: HTTP 200, bytes equal to the producer pin; S22: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin. Documents read 2026-10-22; nothing delivered, measured or uploaded. Apple Film Spec 5.3.22 and QC checklist (S21, S22) not re-read; Disney absence and IMF-supplemental negative from producer reading. Limitations: Documents read 2026-10-22; nothing delivered, measured or uploaded. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260609191656id_/https://portal.amazonstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/38133986621467-Forced-Narratives-and-Deliverables",
      "note": "Amazon MGM Studios portal article \"Forced Narratives and Deliverables\" (IA id_ 20260609191656; bytes equal pin); Prime Video Video Central: Timed Text (live; differs from pin); Prime Video Video Central: Global Packaging Requirements (live; differs from pin), asset table Video row"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250811235437id_/https://portal.amazonstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/38133986621467-Forced-Narratives-and-Deliverables",
      "note": "Amazon MGM Studios portal article \"Forced Narratives and Deliverables\" (IA id_ 20260609191656; bytes equal pin); Prime Video Video Central: Timed Text (live; differs from pin); Prime Video Video Central: Global Packaging Requirements (live; differs from pin), asset table Video row"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://videocentral.amazon.com/support/delivery-experience/timed-text",
      "note": "Amazon MGM Studios portal article \"Forced Narratives and Deliverables\" (IA id_ 20260609191656; bytes equal pin); Prime Video Video Central: Timed Text (live; differs from pin); Prime Video Video Central: Global Packaging Requirements (live; differs from pin), asset table Video row"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://videocentral.amazon.com/support/delivery-experience/delivery-overview/global-packaging-requirements",
      "note": "Amazon MGM Studios portal article \"Forced Narratives and Deliverables\" (IA id_ 20260609191656; bytes equal pin); Prime Video Video Central: Timed Text (live; differs from pin); Prime Video Video Central: Global Packaging Requirements (live; differs from pin), asset table Video row"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://help.apple.com/itc/filmspec/en.lproj/static.html",
      "note": "Amazon MGM Studios portal article \"Forced Narratives and Deliverables\" (IA id_ 20260609191656; bytes equal pin); Prime Video Video Central: Timed Text (live; differs from pin); Prime Video Video Central: Global Packaging Requirements (live; differs from pin), asset table Video row"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://itunespartner.apple.com/tv-movies/support/5385-quality-control-checklists-transactional-movies",
      "note": "Amazon MGM Studios portal article \"Forced Narratives and Deliverables\" (IA id_ 20260609191656; bytes equal pin); Prime Video Video Central: Timed Text (live; differs from pin); Prime Video Video Central: Global Packaging Requirements (live; differs from pin), asset table Video row"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Amazon has two delivery vocabularies: the Amazon MGM Studios manual uses non-subtitled picture plus separate FN and SDH-with/without-FN files and requires a fully textless master when 30% or more of the programme is texted; Prime Video Video Central (licensed content) asks for semi-textless picture (creative text allowed, no burnt-in subtitles) with FN as separate timed text for every dubbed language. Amazon's textless definition removes FN, text over picture and graphics text, which is not the same test as Apple's textless_master attribute (producer reading of Apple). · locator: Amazon MGM Studios portal article "Forced Narratives and Deliverables" (IA id_ 20260609191656; bytes equal pin); Prime Video Video Central: Timed Text (live; differs from pin); Prime Video Video Central: Global Packaging Requirements (live; differs from pin), asset table Video row source

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component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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