Exporting anamorphic video

Hi everyone,
I looked around Discussions for a problem like mine, and I found things similar, but not exact. I am in the process of making my first ever video in the 16:9 format. I have a pretty simple consumer camcorder (Sony Handycam DCR-HC42) which has the option of recording in Anamorphic 16:9, but I never do. Well, for this project, I decided to give it a try. My problem is, that when this video is completed, I will be giving copies to many people... some who have 16:9 tvs and some who have standard 4:3 tvs. When I export the video out of Final Cut Pro, if I go under the "Setting:" menu, and choose DV NTSC 48 kHz Anamorphic, the video looks great on my plasma 16:9 TV (well as great as anamorphic can get anyway, lol) but when I watch it on a 4:3 TV, then the picture is squeezed to fill the entire screen. (Yes, my DVD players are set for the type of TVs that they are being used with.) I would like the black bars on the top and bottom while being viewed on a 4:3 and I'd like it to fill the screen when being viewed on a 16:9.
Shouldn't it automatically put the black bars on the top and bottom if I export with DV NTSC 48kHz Anamorphic? ...Or should I go into custom and change the pixel size myself? If so, what is the correct 16:9 pixel size?
By the way, I'm using iDVD 6 to burn.
Thanks so much.

In iDVD are you creating a 4:3 or 16:9 project? (It could be that you created a 4:3 DVD, and your wide screen plasma TV is coincidentally forcing it to be wide, and so it looks OK.) You will have to choose either a 4:3 or a 16:9 format when you author the DVD -- and then know that the various TV sets will behave in a variety of ways depending on their capabilities. Old standard TVs will chop off the sides of a 16:9 picture. New 16:9 sets can pillarbox a 4:3 picture. An option may be to create a 4:3 DVD that has 16:9 movies letterboxed. In an old standard TV you will get a letterboxed picture. In many of the new sets and players capable of 16:9 you will be able to adjust settings to fill the entire screen. Anyhow this has been my experience with DVDs and aspect ratio madness.
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