Digital lines showing in full quality quicktime export

Hello - just an addition to a previous matter - I exported an 11 min. movie in H.264, w/the default settings, NTSC 4:3; 720 x 480. It's 572.1 MB and I burned to a CD, so that the client can download it into their own laptop, then project it onto a screen. When I viewed it on my computer, there were all kinds of 'digital lines' that showed up, particularly through the transitions (though on most everything else as well), that don't show up on the burned DVD copy. I'm wondering what, if any, particular settings can I use when exporting, so that these pesky 'lines' won't show up, as it looks perfect on the DVD, but won't be viewing from that on the day of the event - ok, thank you!

I have the same problem... Im using DV pal. Looks loke this is a big problem for many users, bus nobudy knows how to fiks it..my lines are still there on the dvds to by the way..)

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KL -
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The problem is - What do You mean by Full Quality. It's very different if Your original material is
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Thanks again for your replies. I am using iMovie 6. Here's a couple of snapshot to see what I'm talking about.
The first shot is a capture directly from the .mov reference file within the iMovie file package.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2332/1799517306181c3840eeo.png
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http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2230/17986776196cc455506do.png
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