Bad quality in dvd

I filmed a video with my sony hdr-fx1 camera in dv mode.
I transfered the movie into final cut pro 5.
I edited and everything looked fine in fcp. When I made the dvd in DVD Studio Pro or iDVD the result was a not so good quality video. Why????????
I see my whole work fine in fcp, but when I make the dvd everything looks like compressed......
I export my work to quicktime movie with the default settings for dv. Do I need to export with another setting????
Thank you.
I'm a beginner iin this stuff. I thought this thing was easy....

Ok.
Don't get mad!
oh, dito, i'm not mad at all! you've fallen victom to marketers who drape their products with glamour and glitz and tell you how your life will change for the better with this hdv camera and this computer. i've got three macs in my house and i always ask, why? i used to work out with all of my freetime, now i'm in my home editing bay. why?
i've spent almost 20 years in the realm of live tv in one compacity or another and i always ask myself, why? many regulars around here have more time than mine invested in post production. there's nothing glamourous or glitzy about this business although you wouldn't know it from reading the trades and looking at the ads.
I made the dvd with idvd.
The movie looks like if shooted with a normal dv
camera (a poor image camera).
I don't understand why if in fcp looks fine, perfect,
when I record the dvd or export the movie, the image
change. That's it's why I'm asking how can I export
this movie to maintain the quality (maybe not the
best, but good enough).
yes, there's a lot of issues here and most of it based in engineer gobbledy gook and most of i pretend to understand as it's part of my job - can't say i understand most of it though! your image quality depends a lot upon where you are watching it: are you watching your sequence on a fancy new apple cinema display or an expensive ntsc monitor or a consumer tv? another issue is based upon the length of your sequence and upon the mpeg2 compression settings.
report back and then go from there. i'm off to broadcast another day at wrigley field......

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HD-DVD was a short-lived standard and it was only a few Toshiba DVD-players that could playback.
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Getting the best display on your monitor
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows/getting-best-display-monitor#getting-best-display-monitor=windows-7
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows/improve-display-quality#1TC=windows-7
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