Anamorphic question

I'm editing 16:9 anamorphic material in Final Cut Pro, then exporting to Compressor with the "High Quality Widescreen" mpeg2 encode selected, and importing the resulting file into Studio Pro 2, where I select "16:9 letterboxed"in the track pulldown menu. The resulting DVD is letterboxed when played on a conventional 4:3 monitor but when I play it on my Sony production monitor, which has 16:9 capability, it still plays as letterboxed. I know this because if I select "Underscan" on the monitor I can see that the usual video noise at the top and bottom of the full video frame is outside the black bands. If I select "16:9" on the monitor, the image gets squashed vertically. Does this problem occur because the monitor doesn't automatically communicate with the DVD player and use the full pixel set on the DVD to go into anamorphic mode? How can I be sure that the DVD is really anamorphic and will play as anamorphic on a widescreen TV?
ALFRED GUZZETTI

If you can try the disc on a recent Mac system, DVD Player will give it a wide window if it's anamorphic.

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