Controlling how ATV crops photos?

When I manually click through my library of photos, the ATV seems to randomly crop in on the photos. I have a 42" HDTV, so the format translation should be fine, but photos getting chopped off and not all in the same manner.
Anybody?

Exactly how the tv chooses to crop photos that don't match the output ratio of 16:9 is something I haven't given a lot of thought to. The fact that it does simply doesn't suit me, although it likely just crops evenly top and bottom.
I've chosen to crop all my photos to 16:9 myself for the tv, this way I get to choose which areas get cropped and which don't.
You should also be aware of overscan, something that every tv does to a differing extent and something that has nothing to do with the tv. If you choose to manually crop your photos as I do you should make allowances for this.

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