Widescreen format play's back in 4:3 on SOME dvd players?

Can anyone help? I shot and edited a video in actual 16:9 format (canon xl2 & FCP). When I exported to a quicktime file I changed the video properties to 853 x 420 as stated in an earlier post to make FCP widescreen work with iDVD widescreen. And that works! When i burned to DVD using iDVD I tried playing it back on my Panasonic DVD player and it played back in 4:3, cropping off the sides. But when I played the same DVD on my Playstation 2 on the same TV it played back in 16:9 perfectly fine. I tried it on two other DVD players and one worked (JVC player) and the other didn't (another Panasonci)? So I am confused what is going on. On the first DVD Panosonic player that didn't work I stuck in a 16:9 format DVD that was burned using Adobe Encore and it worked fine, so I don't believe it is a settings issue with the actual player (I think anyways). Does anybody know what is going on? Thank you.

+so I don't believe it is a settings issue with the actual player (I think anyways).+
I've found that you have to go into Setup on some DVD players and make changes. Something like Letterbox or just 16:9 setting. Try it.

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