IDVD movie is too bright

After burning my quicktime movie (created in FCP 6) through iDVD it looks too bright on playback on TV.  How can I correct that?

F Shippey wrote:
iDVD doesn't make ANY brightness or color changes to your content.
F Shippey, I can attest to the claim by both posters, paulaif and steve232. This problem was mentioned by others as well in different posts so to say that iDVD doesn't make ANY brightness changes isn't quite accurate in my opinion and more research/questioning has to be done. It's very troubling to have worked on content for many hours only to have iDVD render it slightly bleached out. The whites are slightly burned out while the blacks are not overly dark. In my case, the content was tested on an output monitor while in iMovie and everything looked fine. Without any settings changed on the monitor, the resultant DVD was burned out. This is always the case and not an isolated incident. I used different DVD players for the test as well, with the same result.
I'm using iDVD6  ver.6.04 which was purchased in late 2006 so it appears this issue was not fixed, considering the original post above is from 2011.
Is there anyone else who can shed light on this issue? Not too much light though, as that's the problem ;-))

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