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That's "postage stamping." It's a problem for the industry to work out...has nothing to do with your gear. It's a side effect of transmitting a letterboxed 4:3 signal in a 16:9 ratio. SMPTE has a study group working on this one.
One other weird side effect I notice sometimes, kinda the opposite of this, is that there are spots done in 16:9 that get smushed back to 4:3 so everything looks painfully narrow. When spots like this air at work they tell me that's how they're delivered to us. So apparently there are some post houses that also need skoolin' on this stuff.
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