Colours washed out - YUV or RGB?

I just outputted my sequence to DVD and when I play it on the TV, the colours are washed out (on the computer looks fine). My yellow subtitles are almost white (subtitles made in FCP).
It's been about six months since my last video and I suspect some sequence settings have been changed. I use a Sony MiniDV camera, import via firewire and export via Compressor to DVD, should my render colour spacing be RGB or 8 bit YUV?
Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Cheers,

Hey,
I had the same problem when I started to author DVDs...
DV has a 0 setup (black level) and broadcast TV is 7.5 Setup. Most DVD players have two settings in the DVD player setup menu - one for richer black (0 setup) or regular (7.5 setup). They come with regular black as default. Most people don't even know about this setting on their players.
But when you're looking at your DV sequences (even on an NTSC monitor), you're looking at the DV footage at 0 setup, with richer blacks.
Then, when you encode, burn and watch it on your DVD player, you're getting an image with 7.5 setup.
So, you will always get a discrepancy, unless you set your DVD player and your clients' to richer black, or add about 10 to 15 point of black using a Color Corrector filter inside FCP just before you encode!
I've decided to adopt the latter, since I've asked around and discovered that pretty much no one messes with that black setting in their DVD players!

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