this is driving me crazy. i have a tv with a widescreen. i don't watch much television, but i watch a lot of movies on dvd. i got a widescreen so that i can watch films with the original aspect ratio without the letterbox.
a fair number of the movies i watch have subtitles. however, a lot of times the subtitles, or part of the subtitles, are printed on the letterbox rather than the picture itself, which means the subtitles disappear along with the letterbox when i watch the film on my widescreen. i can adjust the picture to make the subtitles reappear, but it means i have to either stretch the picture, or by adding side letterboxes to make the bottom letterbox appear (i.e. windowboxing). either way, i'm not seeing the original aspect ratio, which was the point of getting the widescreen tv in the first place.
the ridiculous thing is that it would be easily solved if dvd makers would just print the damn subtitle on the picture and not the letterbox. almost all new tvs these days are widescreen. presumably i'm not the only one having this problem. why do they continue to print the subtitles in the letterbox when letterboxes are disappearing from more and more people's screens? is there a way to adjust where subtitles appear on a commercial dvd?
