HELP! Widescreen isn't wide screen!

I am pretty Mac savvy, however, I have never used (because I never had) a DV camera with iMovie. I usually just used iMovie for little 4:3 movies shot on my small digital camera. But now I just recently got the Sony DCR-HC26 and filmed a lot of family videos using the 16:9 ratio on the camera. When I imported the clips into iMovie it had them stretched out while importing, but once they were in iMovie spent a LONG TIME altering them such that they looked like they did on the camera: widescreen. So then I edited and burned a DVD (using iDVD) and popped it in on my widescreen TV only to find that my film that was shot in widescreen mode on the sony camera, edited in iMovie, and exported out to iDVD was shown on a small rectangular box with black panels on the top and bottom, and sides. What happened? I was under the impression it should only have bars on the tops and bottom if it is on a 4:3 TV and if on a 16:9 TV there should be no bars at all.
SO I then tried playing the original DV tape in my camera and using AV outputs directly to the widescreen TV. The results were what I would expect, there were no bars on top, bottom, or sides. Therefore, somewhere along the line there must be an option, or process of either iMovie or iDVD that alters the widescreen into, well, widescreen but with bars on all sides... Is there an option I am missing? What went wrong, what happened?
Thank you, please help,
TM

There might be others on the forum that might know more about this than I do but to my knowledge once you create a DV project in iMovie and set the aspect ratio to 4:3 (normal DV project) you can not switch it to DV-Widescreen which is 16:9.
Unfortunately you can not change how the video is flagged in iMovie to anamorphic once you import it into iMovie. Does your camcorder have a setting on it for shooting in anamorphic widescreen? Or is this a lens that you use on your camcorder to get widescreen?
I know the couple of times I have played with Final Cut Pro I was able to open a video clip and change the setting on the video clip to anamorphic or not anamorphic and I could then take that video into iMovie 6 in a widescreen project and work with the video in the new project.
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