I have a setup question...

[monksp]

Hi, all.

I just bought my first blu ray player, a Magnavox nb530mgx. It's connected to an Element FLX-3211b hdtv. The problem I'm having with the setup is this:

When I'm using the 'Normal' picture size, watching a blu ray displays as a miniature widescreen with a black border on all four sides (It looks like 4:3 video with letterbox. The vertical bars on the sides are pitch black, as if nothing is being displayed, and the horizontal ones on the top and bottom look like a projected black, if that makes any sense). The next picture size on the tv is 'Full', which simply stretches the image horizontally. It fills the width, but the size of the top and bottom black bars doesn't change, so everything looks distorted. The only other two picture sizes are 'zoom' and 'wide'. These remove the distortion, but crop the sides of the image.

I've looked through the manual for both, and have the blu ray player set to 16:9, and the info box on the TV says that it's receiving a 1080p signal.

Anyone have any ideas? I can't see anything in either manual left to fiddle with to change things.