Plz Help, subtitles are too low

[handofthrawn]

I like to watch anime and would love to be able to watch it on my big screen. I download anime from the fan subbers and they come with subtitles. However, when I burn it to dvd the subtitles are always too low for my TV. I can only see the top part of the text and can't read it at all. I have tried 2 different TVs and 2 different dvd players (xbox and sony)

Can I fix this problem by simply cropping the sides a little so it raises the subtitles for my TV? Thanks for any suggestions. Also, I tried both PAL and NTSC and neither worked. I have a Plextor 8x burner and use DVD Builder (and tried other software) but none of it works.

Thanks again for any help.

[bugster]

This is TV overscan. All TV's crop a little off the picture. All you can do is when you encode to mpeg, add a black border of approx 15 pixels all around. If using TmpGenc to encode, you can use video arrange method setting of Center (Custom size) to this.

[handofthrawn]

Thanks! That was so annoying to try to read the top of every character.