1080i print to tape - output cropped!

Hi,
I have some 1080i footage and I've printed it to tape (Canon HV20). Now, when I view the tape version on my camcorder screen or my HD TV (via HDMI connector to camcorder) the image is cropped on the edges (no black edge, just seems like the image is zoomed in so I can't see the edges of the image). Is this normal? I was very surprised since I thought 1080i was just that: 1920 by 1080 pixels. I'm wondering if this is some weird effect of the AIC using this 1440 x 1080 amorphous pixels when FCE does the transcoding from AIC to HD for printing to tape???
I thought worrying about "TV Safe" was a thing of the past with HD since 1080 pixels is 1080 pixels. Has anyone else experienced this cropping of video when printing a 1080i project to HD tape?
Thanks,
Chad

I'll reply to myself! I found out that my Sharp HDTV is doing a bit of overscanning and indeed some of the image is cropped *by the TV*.
When I print 1080i footage to tape from FCE, and then reimport it back into FCE from the tape all of the image is seen in FCE. So, there is no real loss of the image edges. Thank goodness.
Thanks,
Mace

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