Idvd slideshow displayed using a projector

Greetings,
I've prepared a slideshow using iPhoto (with auto Ken Burns effect enabled), then making a QuickTime movie, then bringing into iDVD as a very simple slideshow with a theme page.
This is for my son's school -- I took it there today and projected it onto the wall using a DVD player and a projector and the resolution is terrible... very odd flat-looking areas of color and pixelation.
On the TV it looks pretty good. So is this just something that can't be fixed or is there a "good way" to prepare a slideshow to be projected onto the wall with a projector?
Thanks very much for any help you can offer...
Patrice

There was another Topic recently regarding the same situation. As I recall, there's nothing you can do about it. It is blown up so large that it shows how the images end up at low resolution and MPEG-2 encoded.
This may work better:
I was just fiddling with printing to PDF in iPhoto. There are several settings to mess with. I chose 8x10, one phote per page, and then clicked on PDF in the lower-left and chose Save As PDF... My landscape images end up portrait. You'll see that in the print box.
If you open that file in Acrobat Reader 7.0.5, you can click on the Rotate button to get the images oriented properly. Then Window/Full Screen View. Then click your mouse to advance.
Of course, now you need a notebook connected to the projector...
And then there's Fred's suggestion:
Hook your computer up to the projector and use an iPhoto slideshow.

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