Menu format that will fit ALL TV screens, old and new?

I'm having trouble creating a menu that will fit all the variety of screens now. What should I use as my settings in DVD Studio Pro?
4:3
16:9 letterbox
etc. etc.
The film is a 90 minute docu DV NTSC anamorphic. I originally made a 16:9 (letterbox) menu, which works fine on a regular old 4:3 TV, but is coming up in all sorts of odd combinations with the wide flat screens.
All ears...
Ben

The problem you are facing to a degree is the fact you can't control the user input at the other end once they have the DVD.
My personal opinion is if the movie is 16x9 Anamorphic then the menus should be too. That means you need to set the menus to 16x9 Letterbox.
Now you could design your menus cleverly - by making them 16x9 but keeping the elements that are important within the 4x3 frame - that way if the user has their DVD set to output 16x9 they get the full menu if watching on a 16x9 tv set, if they have their DVD player set to 16x9 Letterbox and are watching on a 4x3 set they'll get bars top and bottom (the letterbox) and if they are watching on a 4x3 set and have their output set to 4x3 Pan and Scan (why?) they get the menu with sides chopped off but still see all the important bits... course if they have the tv set that way then they'll be watching your movie with the sides chopped off too
So that's why when we have a 16x9 movie set up properly in DVD-SP we design our menus to 16x9 and be done with it...
If the end user wants to watch it squashed, stretched or whatever - there's little you can do about it...
Hope that makes sense

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