To answer to the zoom-thingy.
Did you ever zoomed out and saw what is cut from the frame? If i were you, I would do it some time.
Example; the movie Blade Runner, in the beginning they are sitting on a chair from the Tyrell Corp., it has the name TYRELL on it and its fully in the frame , when played trough the WDTV, its cut off and you see YRELL., when you zoom out, 0.9x, the the whole name is visible, but then u have black borders on both sides, zooming back to 1x (what is NOT 1x, you see its cut off! That is what frustrates me, those missing details! is about 2cm on every side that you miss!!! This should NOT happen on a HD-tv, overscan is CRT-history.
Since pictures say more then words, here are 2 shots from the left side of the frame.
1x Zoom:
0.9x Zoom:
