IDVD widescreen issues

I created a movie using iMovie 09. The movie is made up of photographs, video, transitions, titles and music. Under project properties, I had selected a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio. When the movie was completed, I "shared" it with iDVD. In iDVD I chose a 7.0 theme which was also supposed to be widescreen. In the preview windows of both iMovie and iDVD my project comes out as a widescreen movie; however once the movie is burned onto a DVD using iDVD, the movie plays as an anamorphic 4:3 movie, with obviously parts of the movie cut off on the sides. What am I doing wrong? I want the movie (when it is burned to DVD) to play in widescreen.

I had this same problem. I ended up calling apple support. They had me put the burned DVD into my computer to see if it would play in the widescreen format there. It did. Turned out that I needed to adjust my DVD player's settings to a 16:9 format. I did that and now my DVD plays in widescreen format through my DVD player as well as my computer.

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    Message was edited by: Michael Clancy

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