Colors look less saturated on tv

my problem is this: I made a QT-film using Imovie and then I burned it in idvd. everything looked fine when i saw the dvd on the computerscreen but when i tried it on my tv the colors were de-saturated especially the reds.
The original movie is very saturated but i like it that way. perhaps there is a tv safe color button somewhere that i should switch off before burning?
I need help

I noticed the same thing on a brand new Sony HD TV via a PS3, and for that matter when replaying the DVD on the Mac, and on a SD TV with 16:9 capability and a standard Sony DVD player. Everything got much better when I changed the quality factor from Best to Pro (look in Project Info, and also in Preferences for the default setting). Still not nearly as good as playing the iMovie project results or raw data via PS3, but definitely better. I get the impression that standard DVD results are pretty much always going to be of reduced quality. BTW, the source video was 1080i AVCHD which is spectacular; my quality expectations for iDVD were already low, but until I changed from "Best Quality", I was depressed.

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