TV safe area and widescreen

I have a question about the TV safe area using iDVD 6. I uploaded my video into imovie then shared to iDVD and chose a 6.0 theme called "shelves" and changed my project to widescreen 16:9. I didn't bother choosing TV safe area and made my project and burned. I tried it on a widescreen TV and some of my titles and video are off the screen as well as some of the shelves in the menu. I'm new to this and I just assumed that with a widescreen TV I wouldn't have to use the TV safe area. Is this where I've gone wrong? Do you still have to enable TV safe area even for widescreen TV's?

I think I've totally confused you LOL! I used "shelves" in iDVD...which is a widescreen theme already...isn't it?
Also, when I shared from imovie to iDVD I didn't lose anything...I didn't do anything to the clips other than drag them onto the timeline in imovie and add chapter markers in imovie. I didn't use any transitions or any titles etc etc...just dragged clips down as they were when I uploaded them. Then saved and shared to iDVD...chose the theme "shelves" and it prompted me with the aspect ratio thing. After all said and done...now my titles are off the screen (which I made in iDVD) and my pictures are off the screen (which I put into drop zones etc). I didn't think I'd have to use the TV safe area but maybe I'm going to have to do that and reburn.
I hope this is clearer to you now. I hate calling Apple and waiting on hold forever

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