DVDs copied to Apple TV only seem to play in small format on Widescreen TV

Ok when i purchase a film from iTunes Store, it plays on Apple TV and uses the full capacity of the attached flat screen TV. When I use Aimersoft to copy old collections of DVDs to store them on Apple TV they only seem to play back using 60% of the widescreen - some movies much less. Does anyone out there have any ideas as to how I might get the copied movie to play back on the full TV screen? I have tried using different software and decrypting using a variety of presets and filters, and screen out formats. Irrespective of what I do, the result always seems to end up the same. Any ideas?
thanks Paul

without going into specifics... not every film has the same aspect ratio, so you will get black borders top and bottom.
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