Aliasing When Burning 16:9 DVDs

for weeks, i've been trying to improve my HD to SD conversion. the MPEG2 always looked great on my computer monitor, but i saw aliasing and jaggies on my television when i watched the DVD. i now think i've discovered that my downconversion is fine, but it's the 16:9 aspect ratio that is making my DVD look bad.
on a hunch, i created a "matted" 4:3 version of my HD timeline, and burned a 4:3 DVD (with black bars on top and bottom embedded in the video), and it looks great! but why is that? i've tried multiple TVs and multiple DVD players, and every anamorphic DVD has jaggies on the text and angles...but when i burn a matted 4:3 of the same timeline, it looks perfect. any ideas?

No, that is not the way it should work. This may help:
iDVD: DV widescreen 16:9 workflow from Final Cut Pro
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2179?viewlocale=en_US
Final Cut Express: DV widescreen 16:9 workflow for iDVD at http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1611
and
Preparing your Final Cut Express or Final Cut Pro movie to work with iDVD at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6652.html

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