After burning 16:9 sources onto a DVD-R and playing them on a normal 4:3 television, the framing is cropped. It DOES NOT scale down anamorphically and "letterbox" to preserve the original 16:9 framing. I have tried changing the source settings from 16:9 to 4:3 and it still does not convert the framing correctly. Have tested in multiple consumer DVD players and the result is the same. Somehow it is not setting the encoding flags correctly when converting the source video. Very annoying. And it uses square pixel encoding when transcoding the source video so it looks very "blocky" compared to the original source even at high quality settings. My advice is to use another transcoder if you want to do any format conversions and use Toast only to burn to disc. It's a great app, I've used it for many years, but its built in transcoder in version 8 is crap.