Using apple TV with an LCD monitor

I've hooked up an Apple TV to a Dell LCD monitor that has an aspect ratio of 16:10 using an HDMI to DVI connector.
It seems to me that there is no really solid reason for the Apple TV to not allow support for 16:10 aspect ratio. Watching an espisode of Lost on the LCD is particularly bad, since it is pillarboxed to begin with, and the 16:9 signal that is sent then is further horizontally squished instead of using the available space.
It would be nice to have this display show the signal letterboxed, but there is nothing you can do with a digital display with a digital signal, you are locked out from any manipulation via the control panel on the monitor and everything is left for the source to decide. If the source doesn't support much configuration (in the case of the Apple TV any configuration), then you're locked into watching an inferior image.
Is there any way that I am missing to get proper aspect ratio displayed when plugged into a 16:10 aspect ratio monitor?

Apple TV isn't a monitor. Nor is it a deck. It is another computer. So no, you cannot route a signal thru it.
You are living in cloud cookoo land.
Shane

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