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From what I've read on Toshiba's website it looks like the SD-4800 will do what I'm looking for it to do. I'll check it out and return it if I'm not happy with the performance.
Using my Avia disc I've determined that the overscan is about 5% all the way around my TV. Overscan isn't the problem with subtitles when watching a non-anamorphic widescreen disc in EXPAND mode on my TV. The problem is that the subtitles are sometimes authored on the disc to appear below the image frame on a letterboxed DVD. Same problem with my City of Lost Children laserdisc. The subtitles are below the image and if I use the EXPAND mode on my TV, they get cut off. So basically you would see it on any disc where the subtitles are authored to appear below the image. I want the DVD player to be able to do the cropping and still display the subtitles.
I don't think I want to spend the dough on an ISF calibration right now. I just had a technician from Tweeter (where I bought the TV) out to my house on Monday for a service call. He tweaked the TV pretty good and I think it looks fabulous right now. I've got a five-year extended warranty from Tweeter and they tell me I can call them pretty much any time in that period if I'm not happy how with it looks. They'll be coming to clean and service my TV once a year under warranty.
Looking at your collection, tomdkat, one DVD that I know I have problems with subtitles when I expand it on my TV is Rounders. The subtitles on Rounders are authored to appear completely below the image. Check that disc and see what happens on your Toshiba TV.
I'm gonna go out now and get the SD-4800. It can't hurt to check it out. If I don't like what it does for me, I can take it back. No worries there.
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