TV picture too large

There are two zoom controls that you need to "play" around with.  The first is your TV's zoom.  You should have a TV menu that you can bring up with the TV's remote.  That remote may already have a button for zoom control.  Look at your TV's user manual.

The second zoom control is on your U-verse remote.  It's in the lower right.  Depending on which remote you have it will be marked "zoom" or "cc".  Either way that will bring up a menu on the right where you can get to the zoom settings.

You need to fiddle with these settings to get what you are happy with.  I suggest "normal" for the U-verse setting and a similar setting for the TV's control.  Depending on the TV brand they may label this different ways so you need to experiment or read your manual.

There's also U-verse's screen resolution to consider.  Use the Uverse remote and press menu.  From the menu select options, system, and finally tv screen resolution.  Select the appropriate setting for your TV (if you have a 1080p TV you still want to select 1080i).

Hope this helps.  There's really not a lot of variables to play with.  So you should be able to figure this out.

Update/edit: Here's some related info about black bars around certain videos and aspect ratio.

I see that you posted around this time last year with the same issue but I don't see that you ever found a fix.  Did you ever find out what the problem was or a solution?

I believe it was suggested that you do a Whole House Reboot last year.  Did you do a WHR the last time and/or did you try it this time?

I noticed it was the exact date last year too, ironic. No, I never found a solution it fixed itself eventually, but this time it's worse.
I have a lot of problems with Uverse. Last year they replaced the router, 2 receivers, the DVR, did some rewiring, They said some of the picture problems happen with updates. The tech last year said he had countless calls after one of the update last year. It's just very frustrating

So you are re-posting the same problem you had a year before (thanks @skeeterintexas for pointing that out) and you previously did/checked all the things I suggested with no success.  Gee, I which I had known that.  Replacing all the equipment I would sort of characterize as the ultimate WHR.   So below are some questions and tests to try or think of (in no particular order).

1. Is this problem with only dvr recorded videos?
2. Does watching live broadcasts look ok?
3. Is this for specific or all channels?
4. Have you tried watching a live broadcasted segment, and if ok, recording at the same time and then seeing if that playback looks ok?
5. If live playback of a local channel is not ok, what would it look like if you looked at it with a OTA antenna? That would take uverse out of the picture (no pun intended) to see if your tv is at fault.
6. If you have more than one tv does this happen on all tv's?
7. Are you using hdmi?  If so does the problems occur if using a component connection?  What about using a different hdmi input connection to your tv?
8. Would it be possible to post a picture illustrating the problem you see?

If you've done a soft or Whole House Reboot your other option is a hard reboot but that will erase all of your saved recordings.

Have you tried component cables (RGB) instead of HDMI?

Here's your pic from last year:

I'd try component cables before I asked for a new DVR and lost all my recordings.  But then again, I have a tub'o'cables in the garage.

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