Screen not full size with DVD movie

I have a new iMac and played my first DVD. It was a 16:9 letter box format. The DVD started as a very small picture. I then went to view and set for full screen mode. The movie still only expanded to 70% or so of the screen. Are iMAC not capable of using the entire screen, I thought movie playing was a feature. It looked great and we moved close to the screen, but this cant be right. Ideas?
Thanks

Thanks for the info. I am still not getting full screen. When I start the DVD the picture size is about 5X12 inches. When I go to the View menue and select full screen it goes up to about 6" X 13 3/4". The usable size of the screen is 10 1/2" X 18 1/2".
After I select full screen from the View menue I do fine the DVD controller appear as you suggested, but the only screen option is the screen icon with inward pointing arrows which make the screen tiny. There are no controls I can find that make the screen larger. I tried going to the apple menue and found various screen resolutions but not controls for changing them.
I have the help service since I just purchased so I guess I'll try to set up a help phone call. Although even that failed to work last time. This is wierd because everything else is so intuitive and logical to resolve.

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