Burning an Album to DVD

Can anybody please help? I have created an iPhoto album comprising 50 photos mostly taken on a 4.5 megapixel, 3:2 aspect ratio, setting with my Panasonic compact. I want to create a DVD to achieve the best possible picture quality, at maximum picture size, to show to friends and family on a widescreen TV. I particularly do not want a slideshow. I prefer to just index the photos at my own speed using the DVD controller. I have tried the "share" to DVD feature but the result is extremely poor. I have also tried using iDVD also without success (and its always a slideshow!). I have read and re-read the help topics in iDVD and have come to the conclusion that creating what I thought would be a very basic DVD format is more involved than I ever imagined. Surely it must be possible to
just save your photos to DVD for simple optimum viewing on TV?
I will be most grateful if somebody could post an idiot proof step by step guide to help me.
regards Malcolm Sheppard

First, recognize that the quality of photos seen with a DVD on a TV is not going to be as high as what you see on your computer.
You can do what you want via at least two methods--one using iDVD and one burning in Finder.
1)Create a slideshow in iDVD that you can operate manually.
Create a slideshow by opening iDVD and selecting a theme.
Then, go to iDVD's Help file and search for 'Creating Slideshow' and follow those directions. (I tried to Copy/Paste these, but could not get them to Copy).
When setting the Slide Duration, you can select 'Manual' to allow you to advance the photos manually with your DVD remote.
2) You can also do this by burning your photos to a DVD or CD disk from Finder. It will play on most new DVD players, the ones that play mp3s and CDs, and you will advance the photos manually.
To do this, export your iPhoto album to a folder on your desktop.
You should number the photos so that their order is maintained.
Then click once on the folder to highlight it and go to File->Burn "NameofFolder" Insert a blank disk and burn it.
You might want to try both methods and see which works the best for you.

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