IPhoto album to iMovie to iDVD, poor quality of projected images

I am preparing a slide show of digital photo images.  The finished product shows poor quality images.  I am import the images as an album to iMovie, add a few title slides, then export either to media file or directly to iDVD.  The results remain unacceptable when projected on a flat panel HD TV.  Where am I going wrong?
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If you are using the Share ➙ iDVD menu in iMovie, don't.  Use the Share ➙ Media Browser menu option and then drag the movie frome the Media/Movies pane in iDVD into the projects menu window. The Share ➙ iDVD route noticibly degrades the resulting movie.  What size movie are you sending to iDVD?  It should be Medium or Large.
What size images in iPhoto are you using?  They shoujld be cropped to the 4:3 size ratio for iDVD before adding to either iMovie or iDVD. 
Have you considered creating the slideshow in iDVD by adding the album of photos via the Media/Photos pane in iDVD.  I've found I get better results that way.  However, there is a 99 slide limit with that workflow.
What do you mean by poor quality.  When going from a photo on your monitor to a TV screen the media gets resized and compressed/encoded down to 640 x 480 which can't duplicate the high resolution of the original image viewed on the monitor. 
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