Why won't video display full screen?

I've imported an mp4 file into Premiere elements 7, burnt it to DVD, but when I view it on TV there's large black areas all around the video. i thought it was the TV setting, played around with those, but couldn't get it to display full screen.
I've looked at the video again in preview, and it's the same when I preview it, so I'm guessing it might be a Premiere Elements setting or a laptop setting? Note this is the first time I've tried it on a new laptop - the old one was nicked when we were burgled :-(
I've done a clean install of premiere elements and just gone from there, so do I need to do something after install maybe?
Any help much appreciated
thanks

Dabbsyl
You say that you created your .mp4 (photos and videos) in Windows Movie Maker. However, please verify that since Windows Movie Maker does not appear to offer a .mp4 export choice...they all seem to be .wmv or dv.avi. If you miswrote on this point, the discussion of .mp4 and Premiere Elements becomes a non issue.
(The above seems to be true if you are using the Windows Live Movie Maker instead of Windows Movie Maker, but in the case of Windows Live Movie Maker there is no longer an option for dv.avi, just .wmv.)
When creating a Premiere Elements project for export to file saved to the computer hard drive or burn to disc,
a. Determine the properties of your source media (video and audio compression, frame size, frame rate, file extension, pixel aspect ratio, etc)
b. Set the Premiere Elements project preset (new project dialog) to match the properties of those source media.
c. Check...does my source media fill the space provided in the Edit Mode Monitor for editing purposes.
d. When exporting, if workflow is for 16:9 Widescreen, then be sure to set for a preset for Widescreen burn to or, if workflow is 4:3 standard, then a preset for Standard burn to.
I suspect that your problems are in regard to set up of your project rather than .mp4 versus other wrapper formats.
But let us see by looking at the details revisited.
Thanks.
ATR

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