The timestamp doesn’t seem obtrusive at all. It’s tiny and it’s on the bottom black bar.
If people still find it distracting I can offer a solution to get rid of it:
- hook up a laptop to your TV with a HDMI cable
- play the file with VLC
- right click and go to “video”, “crop”, and select 2.35:1 or 2.39:1 (whichever ratio Jedi is in)
This will put black bars over the original black bars with the timestamp.