Problems with widescreen

I recently purchased a 2nd gen apple tv. My problem is some movies or shows wont display in widescreen even though they are new. On some movies it will switch between widescreen and the normal view with two bars on each side by itself. I have even had movies where it was a small box with bars on top and bottom. Anyone have any ideas?

I have to chime in, here, too. Example - I have a Samsung 32" only 3 months old.
With the tv in standard 16:9 format, my ATV2 displays some shows with the vertical bars, as though the content is supposed to be 4:3. It is not. It was Camelot from Starz, Robin Hood from BBC, Some episodes of Stargate Atlantis beginning about 1/2 way through Season 5. These all display through the Netfix website/Silverlight player, on iPad and on Plex (on iMac or MacBook) in a wide-screen, full-screen mode.
On the ATV2, when I exit the program back to the menu, the ATV2 menu is full screen, just as it should.
I haven't been able to distinguish a pattern, but it does repeat on certain shows, and only on the ATV2. I don't have Wii, PS3, XBox, etc.
So any help would be appreciated.

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I've a problem with taking snapshot.
I would like to display a loading screen after it take snapshot ( sometimes i
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I was trying to use threads but i didn't succeed.
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I don't know why. In my opinion performing.isShown() method isn't working correctly.
Does anyone have some idea how to use threads here?

Hi,
I've finally managed to work this fine.
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