Aspect Ratio 16:9 cropping off small amount of all sides on export...?

I have a project, all data captured @ DV/NTSC 16:9 anamorphic SD. In DVD Studio Pro it looks correct.
In Preferences, I have tried exporting 16:9, and 4:3 and either way, when played on any of my DVD players or screens, the apect ration doesn't show bars @ the top and bottom of the screen (the screen is set to 16:9) and a small amount of the top and bottom, and a bit more of the sides are cut off of the viewing image. I've gone round and round with different tests, and decided I need some help.
Thanks -
Joel

Hi Steve -
Thanks for the info. My TV is 16:9, and I didn't know about overscan. I just switched the 'Action Safe' setting, and sure enough, that is what I am seeing on my TV screen(s). So what now? How do I make everything fit the smaller size w/o cropping off the area? I'm almost there.
Thanks SO much -
Joel
What you don't say is what kind of tv you are
checking this on - is it a 4:3 set, a 16:9 set?
Are you aware of a thing called overscan? TVs all
display their pcitures with a slight overscan - this
means that a small proportion of the picture
disappears into the surround of the tv. Usually when
you display the same DVD on a computer screen this
doesn't occur. This may be where some of your
confusion is arising. This is why you also have
marked areas in DVD-SP called Title Safe and Action
Safe. These show you where you can safely have action
running and it not be cropped by the overscan and
also shows where it is reasonable to place text to
give enough "air" around it that it won't be cropped
or too close to the edge of the screen.
You also need to make sure (as Thomas points out)
that the track that contains your 16:9 anamorphic
movie is set up right - and that is encoding as 16:9
Letterbox or Anamorphic.
Thenyou also need to be sure that your DVD player is
outputting a 16:9 letterbox signal also... Lots of
place which are potential trip-ups

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