Posted by the dog from that film you saw on 01/14/08 20:38

<nospam.dvd@none.com> wrote in message
news:fmgg08$us9$1@agate.berkeley.edu...
>
> I have a 16:9 display. When viewing DVD content authored in letterbox
> (not anamorphic-widescreen), I use the "zoom" view mode (instead of
> full-mode) on my TV to show the letter boxed content.
>
> All works great, but when I turn on the caption on the dvd-player, the
> caption gets clipped off at the bottom.
>
> Is the caption position specified by the DVD content? Or is my
> dvd-player not displaying it correctly? If I have a 4:3 TV, then the
> caption position is correct, it is out of the picture. But I have a
> 16:9 TV, so the position it displays the caption is wrong.
>
> Will getting a different DVD-player help? I have an old Toshiba 5-disc
> DVD changer.



it's the fault of the dvd maker - they choose where the subtitles appear -
and badly designed dvds will present them in the missing area.
some tvs allow you to shift the picture up to take account of this - but
that's still a bodged solution.



--
Gareth.

That fly... is your magic wand.
http://www.last.fm/user/dsbmusic/

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