Changing Aspect Ratio Question?

I have just unwrapped and installed my new apple TV. Setup was the usual Apple synch
However I've found someting tat is rather iritating and wanted to ask if someone can help me.
When looking at the apple TV menue's etc the aspect ratio looks perfect on my 55" wide screen TV. and on my normal TV the current aspect ratio setting of the TV seems to work OK. I think I have it set to 16:9
However when I either play a netflix movie or play a movie from my itunes library the picture doesnt fit and loks more like a 4:3 with black bars down the sides. I can stretch it out and it loks OK, but its very inconveniant to keep reseting the aspect ratio of my TV setup every time I use apple TV.
BTW.. When I use the Wii to stream netflix it fits perfectly.
I dont see a menu setting in apple TV to change aspect raitio..
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Steve

There isn't one. Its output is designed purely for 16:9 widescreen TVs. Any adjustments thereafter must be made on the TV.
If videos display incorrectly either the TV aspect ratio is wrong, TV is not widescreen, the stream (Netflix) is wrong or the local video file is wrongly encoded. Of course if it's a 4:3 film or TV show then it will display as intended with black bars on sides on a widescreen TV.
When you say normal TV you presumably mean a non-widescreen TV? AppleTV is not designed to output to 4:3 sets hence no onboard adjustments.
AC

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