I want excellent quality slide shows to dvd

I have been using iPhoto 6 to make slide shows set to music and then send them to IDvd to burn. After this process is complete, I am disappointed with the quality of the finished product.
I am a pro photographer who shoots raw files with a Nikon D200. I edit in Lightroom (sorry, not Aperture) and convert to full size jpgs with Photoshop. These are very good files in terms of sharpness and color, etc. The jpgs range in size from 2.5MB to 5.8 MB. This is not garbage in, garbage out. I then import them into my iPhoto library and build a slide show. When finished with transitions, effects, whatever, I send my project to iDVD for the finishing touches. I have selected the best quality and fomat for 16x9 wide screen TV. The show comes out just as I designed it, music works without a hitch. To view the DVD on my cinema display or wide screen TV, etc. the sharpess and quality of the images in the show are disappointing. Looks OK (just OK) from afar, but it seems like the quality should be so much better. Granted, my standards are high and I want this to be a professional presentation. Are these the wrong products for the quality that I desire? Are My files too big? (I doubt it) How can my projects reflect the quality of the images that go into them? If these are not professional products, what products might do this better?

I've found that creating the slideshow directly in iDVD gives me the best quality image when played. However, if I play a 4:3 aspect DVD project on my widescreen it doesn't look as good. But when I create the project in the 16:9 widescreen mode, it displays quite well on the widescreen TV as it's masked properly. If I crop the photos to the 16:9 ration the widescreen display is very good. Since the standard DVD image is reduced to 640 x 480 at 72 dpi, there's not much you can do to get a lot better. If you use the Ken Burns effect in iPhoto then you do want to have the largest image size possible so the zoomed portion of the effect is not reduced. As I recall the widescreen image size is 855 480 or so.
The reason I like creating the slideshow in iDVD is that it really is a slideshow. You can move back and forth slide by slide with a click of the remote. With the movie type it's rewind or fast forward.

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    If you want to pursue the Premiere Elements discussion, there is a forum at muvipix.com (a site started by some regulars at the Adobe Premiere Elements forum) that may be a better forum for this discussion.
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