Locking the 16:9 Widescreen format?

If I had a 16:9 Widescreen video placed into iDVD properly, with a widescreen menu too, is there a way to "lock" the widescreen format so if a person watched my dvd on a 4:3 tv (standard tv), they would see it with a letterbox, no matter if the dvd player was set on PS (Pan and Scan) or Letterbox? In other words, can iDVD preserve the widescreen format so that it CANNOT be cropped on a dvd player? When I used iDVD 06, I created multiple widescreen dvds which I gave to friends, however, they complained that the video seemed cropped and the text was sometimes cut off. I assume they had their dvd player set to PS (Pan and Scan), which crops a 16:9 video and makes it 4:3, thus cutting off the sides. I like the multiformat of iDVD, especially when my widescreen dvd's actually play correctly on a widescreen tv, however, is their a way to lock it widescreen for a 4:3 tv, and keep it widescreen for a 16:9 tv??? Thanks, gategoer

poke01
The usual drill is to set the project preset to match the properties of your source media so that the program is directed to set up the right space in the Edit area monitor for editing purposes. So, if you have 4:3 format, then your project preset would probably be NTSC DV Standard or it PAL counterpart.
But, under the circumstances, look at this idea....
Open your Premiere Elements 12 project to the Expert workspace and make sure that the project preset is the default 1080i30
NTSC
AVCHD
Full HD1080i30
or its PAL counterpart
Import your 4:3 video into the project with Add Media/Files and Folders/Project Assets from where you drag your video to the Expert workspace Timeline.
Click on the screen so that you see a bounding box around the image there and drag on the bounding box handles to scale the image just to display in the screen with no black borders.
Publish+Share/Social Websites/YouTube with preset = High Definition Video for YouTube 1920 x 1080.
What does that look like once it is uploaded to YouTube 16:9?
The idea goes against the grain if you are starting with 720 x 480 (or PAL counterpart 720 x 576) and taking it to 1920 x 1080. But see if you can get away with it.
In your scheme of things, are black borders acceptable. What I am asking you to try ends up with 16:9 with no black borders. But I am not too comfortable with the SD to HD.
Please review and then let us know the outcome.
In questions such as these, please give properties of the source media.
Thanks.
ATR

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