DVD full screen resolution quality

Please advise if I am in the wrong forum. When I play pre-recorded DVD's at full screen, the quality is not what I anticipated. I would have thought tht the video card that comes with the iMac could produce high resolution movies.
I have a new iMac 20" G5

DVDs are designed to be viewed on TV sets, which for NTSC are around 640x480 pixels. Your computer monitor has a lot more pixels - blowing a 640x480 pixel image up to full screen on a computer monitor can be a 'quality' problem.

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