DVD looks terrible on Mac/Windows and great on TV

Hi
My iDVD project looks sharp when played through a domestic player with a TV, but awful on the computer (Windows and Mac).
It looks soft and mushy.
Any ideas? It is going to be played back mostly on computers.
Thanks

Leanda,
Today's DVD are low resolution devices compared to our computer monitors because they were designed to be viewed on the 'old fashioned' CRT TV sets. An NTSC TV set has less than 640x480 pixels - when you 'blow up' such an image to fill a large computer monitor, the image WILL be 'soft and mushy'.
If you intend to view a movie just on computers and will keep it on a hard drive, you can maintain quality because hard drives can give the highest playback bit-rates. However, if you want to put the movie on a CD or DVD, the playback bit-rate of disc players won't let you maintain the highest quality without skipping. Neither of these options will give you the menu structure of iDVD.
You need to decide what it is that you want.
F Shippey

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