IDVD picture problem on home DVD

I make iDVD slideshow.Everything is O.K. except that there is a red underline below the slideshow text.
And playing with my home DVD player the slideshow pictures are extremely
wide and depressed,flat.(I tried to change the TV screen size correction normal but playing DVD it sets back this kind of extremely flat pictures.)
Please let me know what can I do for a perfect real size.
Thanks in advance
Robert

720x480 is a rectangular pixel size image that iDVD doesn't like.
Apple suggests 720x540 for standard video in NTSC and 854x480 for widescreen in NTCS. For PAL it's 768x576 for standard video and 1024x576 for widescreen. All of these sizes are for the regular, square pixel images generated by still digital cameras.
DVD SP WILL accept rectangular pixel images, but this isn't the DVD SP forum.

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