Does not Stretch on Computer DVD player

hi everyone.
I just burned a DVD using iDVD... I have that working now, which is nice.
Here is my question:
When I put the DVD into my computer DVD player and view it at fullscreen.. it does not stretch the image the full wide and height of the screen.
My question, I guess, is there an option or way to have the movie go full screen and take up ALL the space on the screen when in full screen mode?
Right now the video has big black bars on the left and right sides of the screen.
thoughts/comments?
thanks
Dean

If you made the DVD for a standard TV, the aspect ratio is 4:3. Your computer monitor has a much wider aspect ratio (probably close to 16:9). This means you WILL have black bars on each side. I don't know of any computer DVD player that stretches a 4:3 image to 16:9 thereby making everyone look fat! (I hate to walk into someone's house and see 4:3 content stretched to 16:9 on an HDTV set.)
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