Imported still photo to fit 16:9

I am trying to find a way to import a photo (jpeg or tiff) and having it fills up
the 16:9 screen. I even tried sizing up the photo in photoshop but it would
still not fill up the whole 16:9 screen. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

I ran into the inverse problem only it was limited to a subset of the pictures. All the pictures where 1080 high, and in their original aspect ratios, lower than 16 x 9. Most of them were just presented in their correct aspect ratios, but the subset was stretched to fit the entire 1920 x 1080 frame.
First I checked the manual and noticed that this behavior contradicts what the manual says the software will do. I then noticed that all the pictures that prompted the erroneous stretching behavior were 4 x 3, 1440 x 1080, so I tried first extending the canvas with black fill to change the aspect ratio. That didn't work even when I matched the aspect ratio of pictures that did not evoke this behavior. I then tried cropping to get close to the portrait mode pictures that never had the problem.
None of the above worked, so I resorted to extending the canvas of all the originally 4 x 3 pictures to 1920 x 1080 by extending the canvas horizontally in photoshop. As wasteful as that is, it worked. On the plus side, JPEG should be pretty efficient at encoding pure black.
It sure would be easier if the software did what the manual says.
For your problem, just make the pictures 1920 x 1080, or whatever resolution you are using and that should do it. HD uses square pixels. If you don't care about the aspect ratio, make the 1440 x 1080 and DVDSP will stretch them out to cover the frame.

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