Youtube displaying widescreen movies in letterbox on widescreen tv

Hello all,
I hope I can get some help here.
I have a dual-monitor setup where I have a 19" main monitor running on 1280x1024 as my main desktop, and I have my 42" widescreen full-HD tv connected to the secondary output of my GeForce 9600GT.
I like to watch movies/youtube fullscreen on my 42" tv ofcourse, especially since YouTube now has 1080p quality available.
On other media players (like windows media player, Ustream and others), when I click fullscreen on widescreen content, the entire display of the TV is being used, but when I click the fullscreen option on YouTube (when the youtube content is on 16:9) I get a black letterbox all around the content.
Youtube is treating my TV as a 4:3 (so I get black bars on the left and the right). I guess the player isn't able to detect that it's actually a widescreen TV. The playbar and adds etc. show up on only part of the screen as well, and then ofcourse since it seems to detect 4:3, it also puts black bars on the top and the bottom for the widescreen content.
Is there any way to force 16:9 settings on youtube, regardless of what the player is apparently detecting?
Kind regards.

Hi, The only thing I would suggest is to see if Youtube has any guidelines. Also when you open your thread, look to the right side and you'll see "More like This" where various threads seem to be discussing this issue.
Thanks,
eidnolb

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