Black side bars--NOT widescreen

I know I've read about this a long time ago but have since forgotten it and I can't seem to dig up the answer in the archives so I ask for patience.
I just made a long-term loan of my now-unused Canon GL 1 to a friend who is doing some extensive video streaming and needed a better camera than the little consumer contraption he had been using.
He just called to ask why he was getting these thin black lines on the right and left of the frame in his QT movies were he hadn't gotten them with his old camera. I remembered this issue coming up in the distant past but couldn't rememeber what the issue was; mainly because I never had a problem with them as they outside the video-safe area and therefore never seen on anything I did when televised. Actually, I told him that I was surprised to hear he WASN'T getting them with his old camera.
What are these lines, why are these lines, and what can be done about them if anything? Again, this is a first-generation GL 1 so we're not talking about letterboxing or any kind of issue like that. This is straight 4:3 minidv footage. Also while we both have updated versions of most apps involved, this is an issue that went back to when I was using QT 5 and FCP 1.2.5 so it ain't anything like that.
thanks
alan b

What are these lines, why are these lines, and what can be done about them if anything?
The following is an extract from a GL1 review <http://www.bealecorner.com/gl1/res/gl1res.html>:
"You will note on the full 720x480 firewire frames, there are two black bars at left and right on the image: 7 pixels wide on the left and 6 pixels wide on the right, so the active image area is only 707x480 pixels. These bars are in the "overscan" region of any normal TV or monitor and thus not visible on video; however, this means stills obtained via firewire must be cropped to remove them."
This seems to indicate that this "problem" is due to the design/manufacturing of the GL1 and is normal for the camera. If targeting the final file for play on a computer (or similar device) and this "defect" bothers you, would normally recommend a crop/scale action be included during the final compression.

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