Well, I had managed to show off Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo (using roxfan's subs) to a few people using my housemate's 46-inch Samsung DLP widescreen (I forget the exact model at the moment). Now, this wasn't as easily as simply following the directions on my MKV to AVI guide as the Samsung TV has between 5% to 10% overscan, and subtitles and the karaoke would lie halfway off of the screen, making it difficult to read the dialog. In the past, with hard-subs in AVI files and many fansub groups that do not position their subtitles to adjust for this (This is not meant to be a slight against any fansub group, as they doing the much harder job of translating and timing these subtitles in the first place at no cost to us), there would be nothing I could do other than slightly windowboxing the video as to make sure the subtitles appear properly on screen. Now, though, thanks to MKVs with their soft-subs, I can at least do something about it when converting it to an XviD AVI file to play on the big screen.

In the case of Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo, I am able to adjust the margins in the .ASS file to account for this overscan issue. It's not all that difficult, as I bascially made sure the minimum vertical margins are around 30 pixels from the bottom or 20 from the top, and the horizontal margins are at least 50 pixels on each site (This is according to the original 768x432 raw MKV dimensions, not the smaller video dimensions used by roxfan). These numbers were determined via a good amount trial and error (and about 4-5 DVDs wasted burning the resulting file and playing it on the TV). As I can determine, our TV has a 4.6% top overscan, 7% bottom overscan, and 6.5% left and right overscan. Truthfully, the bottom margin could actually be smaller (probably at the 4.6% mark), but I liked to have the dialog subtitles a small distance from the bottom edge of the screen, instead of being right on top of it.

The result, though, is nicely easy to read subtitles when watching the film on the Samsung DLP. I think some parts, like the credits at the start of the movie, the English translations are slightly adjusted to the left or right than when they were originally, but nothing too bad.

For those interested, I'm attaching the subtitle file to this post (right-click and choose "Save As" to download it). Hopefully, others will find it useful.

UPDATE: I have screenshots highlighting why it was necessary to reposition the subtitles.

UPDATE 2: I've attached the fonts used with this subtitle file. You may have to install them on your computer for the subtitles to display correctly.