I'm watching NCIS on FreeView 21, and the subtitles are half-height! Two
lines of subtitle taking about the same vertical space as one normally
does, or when only one, about a half height. Same width as usual.

I assumed it was my set failing, but I switched to a couple of other
channels (1 [BBCONE] and 27 [Yesterday]) and back, and the subtitles
were normal on those, but back to half when I went back to 21. I tried
putting the set in standby and coming back out - they stayed
half-height.

It's on a commercial break now - and most of those have subtitles, which
are appearing normal height. Let's see ... no, they're back to
half-height when the programme came back.

(Obviously data corruption in the program file; I just can't think why
there would _be_ a half-height facility!)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

The bottleneck is always at the top of the bottle. - Attributed to Peter
Drucker (re management), by @Eric_Partaker 2023-7-14

"J. P. Gilliver" wrote:
> I'm watching NCIS on FreeView 21, and the subtitles are half-height! Two
> lines of subtitle taking about the same vertical space as one normally
> does, or when only one, about a half height. Same width as usual.

They look normal here.

> (Obviously data corruption in the program file; I just can't think why
> there would _be_ a half-height facility!)

Or they can specify the font. They appear to be using a monospaced one
whereas on Dave, it looks proportional. The fonts are certainly
different. Maybe there's an option for point size in your settings!

In message <ur8bdd$2o10$1@apd.eternal-september.org> at Thu, 22 Feb 2024
20:38:59, Apd <not@all.invalid> writes
>"J. P. Gilliver" wrote:
>> I'm watching NCIS on FreeView 21, and the subtitles are half-height! Two
>> lines of subtitle taking about the same vertical space as one normally
>> does, or when only one, about a half height. Same width as usual.
>
>They look normal here.
>
>> (Obviously data corruption in the program file; I just can't think why
>> there would _be_ a half-height facility!)
>
>Or they can specify the font. They appear to be using a monospaced one
>whereas on Dave, it looks proportional. The fonts are certainly
>different. Maybe there's an option for point size in your settings!
>
>
They returned to normal in the following programme (which was another
episode of NCIS [though - in the weird way these minor channels have -
that doesn't mean it was the _following_ episode]).
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Look at those early black-and-white episodes of /Coronation Street/;
like Ibsen in an flowered pinny. - Iam McMillan, RT 2020/2/22-28