Burning iPhoto slideshow thru iDVD, poor quality

Hello,
i am having quality issues concerning my slideshow when burned onto a DVD thru iDVD. the slideshow is created in iPhoto with photos taken with a 10 megapixel camera. the photos look great when viewed thru my camera on my HD flatscreen tv. when i play the burned DVD on my tv, they look like low resolution photos and not as large on the screen. i have "professional quality" and NTSC format selected in the project settings. when i view the backed-up photos saved on the burned DVD as a DVD-ROM on my computer, they look great. help, suggestions?

i doubt Apple would have included three settings of quality in it's program if it couldn't deliver. especially one entitled "professional quality".
That has NOTHING to do with the quality of the slideshows that are produced - 0.3 megapixels says it all!
'Best Peformance' uses fixed bit-rate encoding that produces a DVD with about as high a playback bit-rate as a player can handle. 'Best Performance' can fit up to 60 minutes of content on a single layer disc. 5 minutes or 55 minutes, the encoded bit rate is the same.
'High Quality' uses a fixed bit-rate encoding rate that approximately fills a DVD with your content (the fixed encoding bit-rate is adjusted based on your content length). 'High Quality' can fit up to 120 minutes of content on a single layer disc. If you have 60 minutes of content or less, the bit-rate will be close to the 'Best Performance' bit-rate (although experience has shown that 'Best Performance' looks better than 'High Quality with less than 60 minutes of content). 120 minutes of content will be compressed more than 60 minutes of content.
'Professional Quality' (new with iDVD '08) uses two pass variable bit-rate encoding. If you have 60 minutes of content or less, the bit-rate will be close to the 'Best Performance' bit-rate. 'Professional Quality' can fit up to 120 minutes of content on a single layer disc. As your content gets closer to 120 minutes, 'Professional Quality' will usually look better than 'High Quality'.

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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Here are two threads on creating slideshow bound for iDVD:
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