I just bought a widescreen tv and put in a dvd in widescreen format. It still has the black bars on the top and bottom! I thought that widescreen movies were formatted that way so that they only showed the bars on regular tv's, but on a widescreen tv, it would fill the screen, like at the movie theater? I have tried all of the zoom features on my dvd player too, some help a little but none of them fill the screen without cropping some of it out. What gives?