Bad quality playback

After I transfer my video clips to idvd, the quality on playback is very poor when play it back on dvd. I seem to lose quality from my dv cam to dvd after transfering to imovie. Any tips??

Do you mean when you play it back in iDVD, or using DVD Player?
Either way, what you see on your computer screen is not as good as it will appear on a TV.

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