White Letterboxing on Widescreen Videos

I just got a new iPod 80gb Classic. I played back some widescreen videos and TV shows, and the "letterbox bars" are white instead of the normal black. This is driving me nuts! Has anyone else seen this or know how to change it?

hi i bought the 160Gb classic and found i had this issue aswell and thought it was default until i looked at my friends 160Gb classic.
However ive managed to trace the error:
when playing video from the video menu eg. videos > tvshow > ..
the letterboxing is black
but
when playing from a custom menu like tvshows placed on the main menu eg. tvshows > ..
the letter boxing is white
i have confirmed this on 2 Ipods and i think its just a menu issue. annoying none the less.

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