Just realised I should have said, I'm in the Aldershot-Guildford area (ex-Cabletel / ex-NTL).
[Edit: Ah, the profile details have appeared now - doh]
v0id - was Wolverhampton formerly Telewest, Cable & Wireless or NTL - I'm wondering if the different systems use different subtitling systems on different channels? I've got the digital subtitles turned on and they work fine on the channels that support them.
geminian68 - certainly when I was using my TiVo, yes, the digital subtitles had to be turned on to record them. I think TiVo was able to record 888 subtitles in theory (but they may have had to disable it due to compatibility issues) but that might have only been from the RF input, not SCART.
Now in the bright and slightly wonky world of V+ it records as far as I can see the whole digital stream directly onto the hard drive as Creative said, which definitely includes the digital subtitles where present and I believe the teletext data where present also.
Creative - yeah, I think I'm probably going to have to drop VM a line about it unless someone can point out something stupid I'm doing
Anyone out there from the Aldershot/Guildford area able to confirm/deny the absence of subtitles of some form or another on Sci-Fi?
Thanks
Greg