DVD setting to widen picture when letterbox detected???

I always end my projects in FCP by cropping the top and bottom of the screen to give it that letterbox effect. But after running it through DVDSP, the players never recognize the letterbox parts as an indicator to zoom in on the image until the letterbox parts are off screen. Thus giving more screen to the left and right sides of the image.
Does anyone know if there's a setting of some kind in either DVDSP or FCP that will indicate to widescreen monitors to zoom in just up to the black bands on the top and bottom of the screen?
Thanks in advance.
Enio

Side note:
This realization came about when I made the mistake of buying a copy of the Pre-digitally enhanced version of "The Empire Strikes Back" only to discover that all Lucasfilm did was do an analog transfer of the old Laserdisc copy and burn it directly onto DVDs.
They didn't even have the decency to program the disc to play widescreen when the monitor was wide. Instead you get letterbox bars on the top, the bottom, the left, and the right. It's downright embarrassing. But it did get me thinking maybe there is a way to fix this, at least on my own projects.
Any info would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

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