DVD burnt in BEST QUALITY but looks like a VCD when played on DVD player

Made a 115 mins movie in Final Cut Pro, exported it to Quicktime and made a project in iDVD 6. If I check the quality of the movie before I burn it, it is all right, I select BEST QUALITY on iDVD setiings before I burn it but, then when it's ready, I check it on the DVD player and it is in very low quality, like if it was a VCD, it shows little squares on the images. Not the whole video but several times during playback. I've burnt dozens of videos like this one before and it never gave me taht problem but the last 3 videos I've burnt it shows it.
HELP ME PLEEEEEEASE!!!!!

I select BEST QUALITY on iDVD setiings before I burn it but, then when it's ready, I check it on the DVD player and it is in very low quality, like if it was a VCD, it shows little squares on the images.
Set it to Best Performance if you are concerned about the highest possible visual quality w/in iDVD6 (keep in mind you cannot exceed 1 hr. in this particular mode).
Also remember to burn from the disc image at 4x or slower using Roxio Toast or apple's Disc Utilities. I recommend using Verbatim or Maxell DVD-R for best results.
Good luck and hope this is Helpful.

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