Video Quality looks low res after burning

we just completed a dvd,
edited in final cut 4,
compressed our files in compressor, mpeg2,
then brought into dvdsp .
everything looks great until we burned the dvd
and the quality looks flat and washed out.
any suggestions?

Check out this discussion on black levels Black levels
How did you monitor/color correct the video? Did you change anything in the encode?
Also a couple of threads here that may be similar to your workflow and have an answer
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