Subtitles on films

[banana]

I videoed a charming french film from BBC4 last night .On watching it the subtitles are below the bottom of the screen!I have tried two different televisions and the result is the same.Before i go to wrestle with the recorder -is there anything I can look out for...and is there anything I can do to make the subtitles 'appear' on the screen I have. I should add that the TV and recorder are new -TV is a wide screen but didnt think the recorder was set up differently in anay way.

[Gef]

Have you checked your TV manual? On my widescreen TV I can change the effective picture size (auto, 16:9, full, cinema etc.) with the remote control.

[robber1]

On wide screen TV's you can choose 16:9 subtitle. This raises the bottom of the picture just enough to read the subtitles. I dont know if this is picked up by the video recorder or if it just records in a default mode. It is something that I have not tried.

[jenstar]

Did you test it on two widescreen TVs? Because it sounds very much like you've got your TV set up to zoom in to the centre of non-widescreen pictures so that they fill the screen, in the process losing a quarter of the original image (1/8 at the top and 1/8 at the bottom), including these subtitles. Simply change your TV settings so that it shows the full picture rather than zooming in - instructions will be in your TV manual.