Need widescreen, not letterbox, when hooking up to TV through composite

I've read a few unanswered posts on this subject. I have a macbook that I want to hook up to a HDTV through a mini-DVI to composite adaptor. When I do this it restricts the available resolutions to letterbox (4:3) resolutions (640x480, 1024x768, etc..). What do I have to do to get this to work properly? I know for a fact that you can put 16:9 through composite cuz thats how my wii is hooked up and its fine.
Side note:
It seems like every time I hook up a mac to a new monitor/TV this same problem occurs. Whoever came up with the idea of restricting resolutions at apple need a swift kick in the pants.

This sounds similar to a limitation of the Intel mini. Oddly the G4 mini with ATI graphics had no problem outputting wide format video from the Apple to S-Video adapter. So I guess the limitation is in the Intel driver. Certainly other Macs have no problem putting out S-video and composite video in wide formats.
You may be able to get around the Intel driver limitation using SwitchRes X, but I'm not sure of it. Basically you would start with a standard timing like 800 x 600 and make a custom scaled timing from it. The result would still be a 4:3 timing but the video inside that format would be wide, if that makes sense. Then you would set your TV to a wide mode and that would restore "square pixels" so to speak.
Again, I don't know if that would work or not. The Intel driver might intervene and not let SRX build the kind of timing I am describing.

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