Help! Cover art cropped on AppleTV main menu.

Hello. I recently ripped up some VHS tapes to my appleTV and took photos of the cover art/boxes and cropped the images to the size of the box. They look fine in iTunes on my iMac; and also look fine when I view them via Computers/Movies on appleTV. However, on the main menu of appleTV they images are cropped. What am i doing wrong; is there a standard size I should stretch these to and re-add them to iTunes so they show correct on the appleTV main menu?
Here is an example:
Looks fine on iTunes:
And also looks fine when viewing on appleTV via "Computers/Movies":
However, it appears cropped on the main appleTV menu as shown here:
What am I doing wrong? Help!.

Looks to me as though the cover art 'placeholders' on AppleTV are designed for images of a specific aspect ratio (relative width:height).
To get them to display properly you would need to add black bars either side of the image so that the overall cover art would be thinner but display in full.
There is nosetting to modify this I'm afraid - it's a GUI choice and they've chosen to crop images to fit the 'placeholder' space rather than scale to fit and automatically add black either side.
You could send feedback but I doubt it would be a high priority fix or option:
Apple - Apple TV - Feedback

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    So, in /Users/yourname/Movies you would either create a folder for each movie (VIDEO_TS) like the following
    /Users/yourname/Movies/The Day the Earth Stood Still/
    /Users/yourname/Movies/Soylent Green/
    /Users/yourname/Movies/Forbidden Planet/
    or you would put an alias in Movies to a folder on another drive containing individual folders for each movie, I will use italics to represent an alias
    /Users/yourname/Movies/MovieDrive/
    MovieDrive would then contain folders for each movie
    /MovieDrive/The Day the Earth Stood Still/
    /MovieDrive/Soylent Green/
    /MovieDrive/Forbidden Planet/
    Each movie folder e.g. "The Day the Earth Stood Still" would contain firstly a JPG file called "preview.jpg" which would be your poster or DVD cover image, and also the VIDEO_TS folder which is a copy of the DVD.
    /MovieDrive/The Day the Earth Stood Still/preview.jpg
    /MovieDrive/The Day the Earth Stood Still/VIDEO_TS/
    /MovieDrive/Soylent Green/preview.jpg
    /MovieDrive/Soylent Green/VIDEO_TS/
    /MovieDrive/Forbidden Planet/preview.jpg
    /MovieDrive/Forbidden Planet/VIDEO_TS/
    Note: VIDEO_TS is the standard folder name used on DVDs and you have to keep that name so that Front Row know it is from a DVD and therefore how to play it, however in order to let Front Row list them under individual names you put the VIDEO_TS folder inside a folder which would be the Movie name, as shown above.
    In Front Row you would select "Movies" this lists the contents of
    /Users/yourname/Movies
    If you have put an alias in Movies it would list this as a folder which in Front Row you would select. Front Row would then list all the movie folders you have created and it would automatically see the preview.jpg files and VIDEO_TS folders in each movie folder you have created. Front Row would then know to display as a poster the preview.jpg when you highlight each movie folder.

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