Blurry tiff's!

Hello there, wondered if anyone has ideas why my tiff images are blurry on dvd after burn, but crystal on the idvd preview?
The images are part of the background menu.
Im using idvd5, the theme is 'Reveal' from 4.0.
There is also a .mov playing in the back too.
Any ideas?
Thanks for your time in advanced!
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Are you viewing the burned DVD on your computer, or on a television screen? DVD is, after all, designed for TV viewing ... much lower resolution than your computer monitor. And DVD format is compressed, so it does not have all of the information that was part of the original source material.

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