left and right of picture is missing

[thecrock]

I have burned a number of movies to dvd with a lot of success but have never come across this problem or if i've had this problem before it's never been so apparent. I burned an avi to dvd using vso divxtodvd keeping the settings on automatic and the picture and audio quality is very good except when viewed on my standalone dvd. Quite a large portion of the picture is cut off from the left and right sides of the screen. Parts of the U and L in the universal logo screen have been croppped whether i view the movie in 16:9, 4:3, widescreen, superwide etc..
I check the preview in vso and the film isn't cropped. Any ideas folks?

EDIT: The dvd plays full screen on my pc.

[thecoalman]

Regular TV's have a overscan area where the video is not viewable. About the only way to fix it is to frame it with black borders. How to go about that depends on the software you have available.