[DanielG]

I recently recorded a concert from MTV Classics which is a 4:3 channel. The concert was shot in 16:9 so they letterboxed the footage.

On a 16:9 television there are black bars on the top, bottom, left and right of the picture.

I'm considering cropping out the black bars when encoding to DVD so that it fills the entire screen. Is this an accepted practice?
Also, the MTV watermark is partially outside the 16:9 area (about a third of the watermark) so the top of the "M" is cut.

Would this be okay to seed here? Or should I just leave the video as is?

Looking forward to your opinions.

Here's he cropped result: http://i45.tinypic.com/1043r4o.jpg