16:9 DVD cropped on LCD TV

Hi there,
This is a problem I have noticed before, but after a lot of searching, have not been able to find a solution yet.
I have put together a company showreel which consists of a few menus and 12 or so video clips. The project is all set up as 16:9 SD, with all the clips in the correct size and format. The project looks fine in preview and when formatted and viewed on a computer (in mac's DVD player or on a PC) - perfect, no cropping. However, when I play it back on a TV - in this case an LCD TV, set to 16:9, I get a small amount of cropping around all sides - I can't be sure of exact amounts but it seems to be up to around 20-30 pixels each side. Oddly, it seems to crop a couple of pixels more on the right then on the left. Even more oddly, when I set the TV to display the video at 4:3, the same amount is cropped off, so it isn't a case of the image disappearing beyond the 'tube' (I know, or I thought, this was only a problem with old tube TVs), there is actual digital cropping happening somewhere. I know the extra image is there, I can see it when I view the DVD on a computer.
Has anyone noticed the same kind of thing? How can I format my project (if indeed it is something I can fix in DVDSP) so I see the entire 16:9 image when viewed on an ordinary TV. As a director on a few of these jobs, it's kind of irritating to see little details being lost.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated

thanks for the response.
I suspect it probably had something to do with the DVD player, as you say. What puzzles me is, why this doesn't get highlighted more often. I have tried playing DVDSP discs on a number of different players, and most of them crop a good portion of the image. Is this just a fact of life? As it seems a bit crazy, sometimes the loss of image is 10-15% of the picture area! Okay, so not enough to start encroaching on title safe (but even that should be a thing of the past, right?). I'm sure DVDs you watch from big studios don't have cropped edges, or is that just because I was never so familiar with the original masters?
I thought I had it understood but it seems not. I thought that an LCD or plasma screen behaved in the same way as a computer monitor i.e. 720x576 pixels = 720x576 pixels, no loss, surely? I know traditional cathode ray tube TVs lose parts of the image around the borders, which is why we have action and title safe areas. I didn't realise the same thing applies to supposedly modern LCD TVs.
Anyone more informed on this than me?

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