Whoa, Karyudo! Chill out! He and I are not entirely talking about the tired subject of anamorphic versus letterbox. We're talking about information on the LEFT and RIGHT sides of the screen that are lost on older televisions due to what i believe is called overscanning. This is an even bigger problem for films that originate from 1.33 sources since there's even more information lost all AROUND the screen. That's why there are action safe zones in FCP...to make sure that vital information, like titles, will be visible to people who still have those TVs.

What I meant by "resizing" was taking the image and making it smaller so it fits inside these "safezones" which is a really bad thing to do since not only do you lose resolution but it leaves this annoying black square around your image.

Anamorphic...letterbox...I'm personally not taking sides on this debate which has been talked about way too much as it is on this forum site already.