Image quality standards for DVD

Hi, just made my first simple iDVD. I included an iPhoto slide show. The results where not good at all. I used psd images, tiff images and jpg, all of them in high resolution and size. The smaller file size was 8mg. I will like to receive a word of advice on how to get a perfect image quality on my slides dvds. In mine, all images looked a bit unfocused or blured. Moving efect changed too much the quality of the images. The result was not good, certainly unusable for commercial purposes.
Also, I used an iDVD premade menu. The shadows of the texts created a pixelation of the background animation. Can this be fixed. Can we get perfection with iDVD? IF not, wich will be the software to use.
Thanks a lot

I called Apple's tech support and was basically told that this is the way it's suppose to look (which is terrible compared to DVDSP3) and that if I don't like it, I should experiment with filters. The guy pretty much made me feel like I'm stupid and just imagining this. If I'd been there in person, I'm sure he would've used finger puppets to try to explain what NTSC is, as that is the only thing he would talk about. I used the de-interlace filter and ended up with the same poor results. I've been using DVDSP3 for two years and have never had any problems. The Tech Support guy really didn't care. I'm wondering if maybe something went wrong in the install process. Since I have deadlines on several DVDs, I had to remove DVDSP4 and re-install 3. Now everything looks fine again. Thank you for your help though. I'm glad I tried the de-interlace filter; at least it helps to narrow down what the problem might be. I'll post more if we ever find out what was wrong.
Mac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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