HD To DVD compressor settings?

What are the best settings to render an HD clip (2 minutes long) onto a standard DVD? Everything I've tried so far looks slightly blurry. Any tips would be great, just would like a quick and easy solution, thanks!

Just use the standard 90 minute high quality preset, unless you are able to make your own CBR with a data rate of 7.5Mbps

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