DVD Resolution

After completing a slide show and burning a DVD, on reply of the new DVD,  the photos are of poor quality and out of focus.  What do I need to do to have sharp photos burned to the DVD?  The photos were sharp, high resolution jPeg images when imported to iDVD for the slide show production.  There was no applied Ken Burns effect, and the only alteration of the photos in iDVD was the addition of labels.  Is there any way to get qualty approximating high definition on the DVD whe using iDVD?

DVDs are standard definition devices.
For best results:
Use 720 x 540 pixels for standard 4:3 video in NTSC and 854 x 480 pixels for widescreen video in NTSC.
Use 768 x 576 pixels for standard 4:3 video in PAL and 1024 x 576 pixels for widescreen video in PAL.
Using larger images can actually reduce the image quality due to the resizing done by Quicktime.
If you have a Blu-ray player, Roxio's Toast Titanium comes with a Blu-ray plugin that lets you create short Blu-ray compatible discs using standard DVDs and your Mac's burner.  Note I said :"Blu-ray compatible discs"; these are not true Blu-ray discs and may not play in all players that play Blu-ray media.  Such discs can be in true HD image size.

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