DVD - letterboxed & sidebarred on bluray player - any thoughts?

Hi all,
My movie will export from Premiere as a 16:9 MPEG2 DVD and play full screen beautifully on a blueray player. But when I export it to Encore, do the authoring, THEN export it to DVD, it will only play letter boxed and with side bars - though wide-screen within this.
If instead of using dynamic link, the movie is imported as an MPEG2 asset into Encore, then it behaves correctly. This method has workflow drawbacks and quality also take a hit because it has to be re-encoded.
In the last 3 days, I have tried every likely Import & Export combination of pixel ratio settings and 16:9 settings in Encore but no joy. How to get DVD full screen 16:9 after authoring? If you have done it I sure would appreciate your suggestions.
Bowen

>If instead of using dynamic link, the movie is imported as an MPEG2 asset into Encore, then it behaves correctly. This method has workflow drawbacks and quality also take a hit because it has to be re-encoded.
Actually, this statement is incorrect.
If the MPEG-2 file is fully DVD-compliant, it will not be re-transcoded by Encore, and there will be no quality hit.

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