Burning Widescreen movies

When I burn iDVDs - the Apple templates for the menu titles come out fine in widescreen format (16:9)
But the widescreen movies I add to be played - get condensed into Standard 4:30 format on playback.
How can I get my movies to play in the original widescreen format?

It should be allowed.
it is not smart to limit on what a person can do on what they brought like a movie's or a TV series.
What is the point of buying to download it if you are not able to burn it to DVD.
With qflix you can really burn what you buy to DVD but right now qflix can only be used with CinemaNow.
qflix is a DVD burner.
http://www.qflix.com/
I was really hoping to burn what i buy from iTunes.
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