Settings for slide show?  Export?

I am putting together a 250 photo slide show in FCE 4. I exported TIF and JPEG files from iPhoto and imported in FCE. My slides look good when played on the browser. My exports, however, do not look good. What might I be doing wrong?
Quicktime export has washed out colors that are vastly inferior to the browse in FCE. Dimensions, however, are fine (16x9). There are also a few pauses and/or hiccups in the Quicktime playback.
Apple TV export is squished. It looks like output was compressed to fit 4:3. Colors are also washed out.
Easyset-up set for 1080i50

I remember a podcast tutorial that says that you should always save your photo files as .tif file (or PICT/TARGA) if you plan on showing it on TV. What you see on your computer screen will not always "look" the same on TV. JPG has somekind of compression that will show up less than stellar on TV where as .tif will not. Also, TV doesn't have the dynamic range to show all the colors and details as would a computer screen. If there are extreme highlights/shadows on your photos then some photos will look washed out or underexposed on TV.

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