diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 79fc76f0..0189b4f4 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1256,6 +1256,7 @@ Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@gmx.de>
  for devices with large buffers
  for implementing cDeviceHook
  for implementing cDevice::GetCurrentlyTunedTransponder()
+ for fixing DDS detection for HD resolution subtitles
 
 Richard Robson <richard_robson@beeb.net>
  for reporting freezing replay if a timer starts while in Transfer Mode from the
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index b7a56676..3aa9b56d 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -6476,3 +6476,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   Rolf Ahrenberg).
 - Added locking to the cCutter functions to avoid a crash in case CutRecording()
   is called from a plugin (reported by Andreas Mair).
+- Fixed DDS detection for HD resolution subtitles (thanks to Reinhard Nissl).
diff --git a/dvbsubtitle.c b/dvbsubtitle.c
index 6ecb3b78..54943746 100644
--- a/dvbsubtitle.c
+++ b/dvbsubtitle.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Original author: Marco Schlüßler <marco@lordzodiac.de>
  * With some input from the "subtitle plugin" by Pekka Virtanen <pekka.virtanen@sci.fi>
  *
- * $Id: dvbsubtitle.c 2.6 2010/06/05 14:03:55 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: dvbsubtitle.c 2.7 2010/08/29 14:08:23 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "dvbsubtitle.h"
@@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ cDvbSubtitleConverter::cDvbSubtitleConverter(void)
   dvbSubtitleAssembler = new cDvbSubtitleAssembler;
   osd = NULL;
   frozen = false;
-  ddsVersionNumber = 0;
+  ddsVersionNumber = -1;
   displayWidth = 720;
   displayHeight = 576;
   displayHorizontalOffset = 0;
@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ void cDvbSubtitleConverter::Reset(void)
   bitmaps->Clear();
   DELETENULL(osd);
   frozen = false;
-  ddsVersionNumber = 0;
+  ddsVersionNumber = -1;
   displayWidth = 720;
   displayHeight = 576;
   displayHorizontalOffset = 0;