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Originally posted by MurDiddlyUrdler
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.
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I DO understand your problem, which is precisely why I mentioned overscan. If you reduced the overscan percentage,to say 0%, then when you used your video expand mode, the "Zoom" your TV does might not crop ANY of the subtitles at all, since you would not be Zooming the picture that is already overscanned by 5%. Do you see what I'm saying.....
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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.
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That's cool, but this is NOT the same as ISF calibration, which would probably result in as close to absolute maximum performance from your set that you could expect. I'm not knocking the Tweeter tech, but unless you go with an ISF tech you're not necessarly getting "the best".
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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.
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Thanks for the title. I'll check it out tonight...
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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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Of course, you must do what you feel is best and I wish you luck!
Peace....