Can I make DVD of HDV quality in iDVD?

I shooted HDV by Sony hdr-hc1.
and I edited the movie (1080 60i) in iMovie,
then I export to h.264 format of that movie.
I import h.264 in iDVD, then authoring..
but that Quality of video is lower as same as DV quality.
and disk size is lower as quarter of iDVD project file.(4GB->1GB)
well, How can I make high quality of HDV in iDVD?
Or is it impossible in iDVD?
iMAc g5 2.0 single+powermac g5 2.5 dual Mac OS X (10.4.2)

iDVD only produces SD. There are no HD players in the USA...yet. Maybe when the HD battle is either won or compromised. Apple is with Blu-Ray.

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+Creating a DVD that plays automatically when it is inserted into a DVD player+
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