Captured footage is outside tv safe area

When I capture footage from my player into Final Cut the picture always ends up being outside the tv safe area. Anyone know why?
Thanks

What you are seeing is the full image recorded by your camera. However not all TV sets are able to view the full recorded image. Nor will the viewable area be exactly the same on all sets.
The "TV Safe" area is there as a guide to enable you to keep all key action inside an area which will be viewable on most TV sets.
See this [article on Wikipedia|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_area].
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