Hi, Zambo.
Thanks for posting here in the Virgin Community.
Does the subtitle issue happen to all Freeview channels or just specific ones?
Have you tried changing the aspect ration to get rid of the black background?
To change the way that the picture shows on your TV, like widescreen and output format, you’ll need to adjust the display format.
- Press Home on your remote
- Select Help & Settings
- Choose Settings
- Select Video Output
You can choose
Aspect Correction Mode
This lets you adjust the way the TV picture fits into your TV screen. It depends whether the picture is in 4:3 or 16:9 (Widescreen) format.
If the picture looks stretched, means it's not fit for Widescreen format. You can try to change the black bar to gray using the Letterbox colour and see if you'll be able to read the subtitles with that instead. Changing the colour will only apply where the box has added the bars and not where they were added by the broadcaster – changing the colour can help to determine this.
For bars that has been added by the broadcaster, we can raise it as a feedback but can't really change it.
Please let me know.
Mia_C