sides clipped on dvds

[vix]

I've noticed that dvd's I've created in toast, while they show fine on my computer monitor, appears to have a little of the sides clipped off when I view it on my tv. is there a way to burn the dvd in a manner that would allow the whole frame size of the movie to show? the movies are 640x480 and it appears that a couple inches are clipped off on the sides when i view them on my tv... but the entire frame shows on my mac when i play it using apple's dvd player.

[Case]

Welcome to the old sloppy ‘solution’ of overscan. Your tv set (any tv set) does that to hide edge artifacts from analog sources. The size of the edge will differ between different tvs, so it's not a fixed size for everyone.
A good filmmaker will take overscan into account and make sure the outer ~8% can be missed. Older movies from before the video era will likely be most affected by crucial action near the edge of the frame.
But if you really want the whole frame to be seen on a tv set, you'd need to pad an extra black border around it in a re-encode.