Images jumping when DVD played on TV

I am working on a DVD slideshow project where the quality of the visual images is top priority. I am using digital photos stored in iPhoto.
I have made 4 short versions to compare the quality of the final products:
1. used iMovie (varied transitions and times per slide) to build the slideshow then exported to iDVD and burned to disc. (I did not let iMovie render.)
2. built the slideshow in iPhoto (varied transitions), exported to QuickTime Movie, then to iMovie and finally to iDVD.
3. built the slideshow in iPhoto and exported to iDVD from there.
4. used iDVD to build the entire slideshow from the iPhoto album: chose "page flip" as the transition.
The KBE was off in each case.
Version #4 looked the best on the computer monitor and so I went one step further with this one and added music - a piece stored in iTunes Library.
All four versions were burned onto the same disc and all four played smoothly on the computer; however, when I played the disc on my television, the images in version #4 'jumped' - each image was clear for only about a second. The television is HD.
Is there an explanation, and hopefully a fix, for this problem? Since the only difference between version #4 and the other three is the addition of an audio track, would that have created the problem?

I'm not sure why that is happening. You could try reburning at a lower speed and changing your disk brand to another high quality brand like Maxell or Verbatim. Make sure you have at least 10GB free disk space to burn. I doubt that the music is the cause, but you could try changing or eliminating that too, as well as eliminating or changing the transition. To adjust your burn speed you would need to save your iDVD project as a Disk Image (from the File menu), and then burn it using the Utilities/Disk Utility app on your Mac. (When you open the Disk Utility window, if your iDVD project is not displayed in the left hand pane, then drag it in there. Select it and burn.) On my computer, the burn speed defaults to 4x, which is slow enough. Alternatively, you could burn using another program like Roxio Toast, that gives you more burn speed options.
You've done some handy research, and perhaps you could share your findings. Which of the methods that you used produced the clearest images in the final burned project when you played back your DVD on your TV? (Obviously you were having trouble with the iDVD one, but you might get it working.) Others have remarked that iDVD slide shows display better on computer preview playback, but I have not seen any comments as to whether the final burned product on DVD plays any clearer than slideshows created in iPhoto or iMovie.
Sorry I can't be more help. Perhaps others on this forum will comment.

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