Don’t most Blu-ray players have a zoom setting for non anamorphic DVD’s? I know Panasonic does.
But then you’ve got the problem of the alien language subtitles getting cut off. Unless of course the player doing the zooming also automatically repositions the subtitles, which I suppose is possible. I’ve got a panasonic bd player so maybe I’ll test it out on a 4:3 dvd.
Yes, I did encounter that issue. Never understood why the films ditched the burned in subs on DVD. Even the widescreen Laserdiscs were that way. At least my Samsung flat panel can slide a zoomed in analog video source up and down to fix that. No such luck with HDMI inputs.