Quick DVD Dimensions Question

I burned a test DVD of my movie exporting to compressor then importing into DVD Studio.
I am aware that a DVD played on flat screen TV is going to cut off about 10-20% of the movie around the borders, hence the title safe overlays when editing. Unfortunately when I filmed the movie I did not account for this leaving space at the borders when framing the shots.
The movie is 16:9.
I would like like the entire frame to be visable on a flatscreen TV. I am wondering how to resolve this.
I am considering using some type of feather box or adding black borders. But I don't want to crop out any of the image.
The other option I am considering is scaling the image down in FCP to fit right inside the title safe zone. But I am skeptical about doing it this way as well. Because I wonder if every flat screen TV is different and each make of TV cuts off a different amount of the image (as opposed to every TV cutting off exactly the same percentage of the image). In that case, if I scale it down into the title safe region, it would fit just right on some flat screens, while others it might be slightly cropped, and on others it would have an ugly black line around the borders.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanx.

In Compressor select your DVD encoding preset and in the Inspector open the Geometry window.
At the bottom is a Padding control with parameters for left, right, top and bottom.
You will have to use a bit of trial and error to get the effect you want. The numbers you enter in the boxes are pixels. Basically you are adding black pixels to the 4 sides of the frame.

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> Hi guys,
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> Firstly a very Merry Christmas to you all !
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> I'm just getting to grips with converting all the text
on my site to CSS
> and
> have a quick question.
>
> On some of my pages I add an 'Also see' links box
aligned to the right -
> it's
> a CSS div tag thingy someone kindly talked me through
once. All of my
> pages are
> built from a template with an editable region.
>
> My question is, can I add this box (perhaps with a
standard 'Also check
> out'
> title and then spaces for my links) at the template
level? This will save
> me
> having to go to Insert>Layout Objects>DivTag on
every page. I've tried
> simply
> adding this to the editable region of the template but
it simply pushed
> the
> editable region box over to the right and then didn't
appear on my pages
>
>
> Also, the links box would ideally appear about half way
down my pages on
> the
> right...
>
> Hope you can help, many thanks in advance!
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> James
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> right of
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FirstTimeLenovo wrote:
Am I able to recieve a new set of these screws?
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I think only lenovo techs can determine or tell that, but my guess is that if they feel they need to be replaced, then they probably will.
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