DV-NTSC or DV-NTSC ANAMORPHIC?

I am about to rebuild a Final Cut Pro 7 project for 16:9. I have resized all stills to 960x540 and the clips (29.97 fps) are ready for importing. I now have to make the choice of either DV-NTSC or DV-NTSC ANAMORPHIC. I have tried a search of the internet but couldn't find out what the difference is and which one of them I should be choosing. Can somebody please advise me? Thank you.
Mitaka (Japan)

Many thanks for the advice. It was much appreciated. Now I have another problem. After reading the PHOTOSHOP TITLES article I am not sure whether I have been wasting the last two days in rescaling my images to 960x540 instead of 720x480. Or do you need the extra for panning and scanning?
Thanks again.

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