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The reason for the "pillarbox" effect you see is that Microsoft's WMV-HD when at 1080i is actually using a 1440x1080 frame size with anamorphic pixels (the same way 1080i HDV works).

It's a pain, but you'd have thought that it would be able to scale and ratio correct for such a standard...

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