I recently bought a 42-inch plasma to complete my HT system.

Now I have a stupid question. I've got the TV & DVD player set at 16:9. Now some movies (i.e., Incredibles, and now it appears King Kong), play with black bars at the top and bottom. Nemo plays with it covering the full screen and several other movies fill the screen.

Am I not setting something right to get it to fill the picture (i.e., Incrdibles/Kong etc.). I know I can set the TV to 16:9 zoom, but I feel it defeats the purpose of having a widescreen TV and losing the edges of the pictureby zooming it (i.e., also, as a plasma owner, I don't want to have to deal with a burn in issue down the road if this will happen more often than not.)

Any thoughts or suggestions..

Thanks in advance!