DVD not sharp

I just created a DVD slideshow with iDVD 6.04. Nothing is sharp - neither the images nor the text. I viewed the DVD on three different computers with three different types of screens and I got the same result with all of them.
Everything looks fine within the iDVD programme.
What is the problem?

I agree and i don't believe it has anything to do with the TV as some have explained. Here's my experience.
I have some photo's and videos i took with my digital camera which reside in iPhoto.
So I decided to to gather some of them together in iMovie HD, While working with
these photos' and movies i noticed that the Still pictures were not clear as they were
in iPhoto. So I shrugged it off until I decided to share the project and use iDVD to
share the project. After i burned one copy i noticed that the pictures were still not clear
as they were in iPhoto. In fact they are fuzzy. What did i do wrong? Why are
the Photo's clear as a bell in iPhoto but look so bad in both iMovie HD and iDVD?
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