Slideshow stretching to fill widescreen Dell

I have a dell 2005FPW with a Mini, and one of my only complaints is a problem in creating a slideshow that does not look like the image is squished. I realize the aspect ratio of the Dell (1.6) does not match that of the photos...most of my photos are 3008 x 2000 (1.5), but many are 2592 x 1944 (1.33) (earlier photos are 2048 x 1536 (1.33)). Regardless of the original photo ratio, the slideshow takes the photo and fills the screen, squishing the height, but keeping the width.
Is there any setting which will show the photo as is, in its native ratio and leave a black band? I would prefer this, as even w/ the 1.5 ratio photos, people tend to have a squat (read fat) look that they for the most part would rather not see.
thanks for any help you can provide
john

Well OT, it seems the introduction of my new camera, the one with the 1.5 aspect ratio has cleared this up for me. Photos (landscape format) from this camera display a black band top and bottom when all boxes within the slideshow settings are unchecked, while the other cameras do not.
In any event, even set this way, the pictures appear to be shown full image, but are compressed in the vertical direction. As I said, for the images from the new camera, there is room at the top and bottom, say .75 inches each to 'normalize' the image...but they still seem as though they are compressed in the vertical direction.
Do you think this is due to the monitor ratio? If I get time this weekend, I may try to sway my son's 17" normal width monitor to see what it does.
thanks again.
john

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