Keynote Recorded Slideshow to iDVD/DVD

I have created a Keynote Presentation designed for a retail application that should eventually play a looping movie on a large-screen TV.
It appears that I don't have the correct EXPORT settings when building a MOVIE to use with iDVD.
The MOVIE file, almost any I've built using the CUSTOM SETTINGS looks great during playback on the iMac. However, when I burn to DVD using iDVD the playback quality is terrible. I've gotten a few different results with different EXPORT SETTINGS, but with the range of settings available I'm at a loss to find the exact EXPORT SETTINGS that will give me high quality playback.
The Keynote presentation/slideshow was setup as 1920 x 1080 and as I mentioned, whatever EXPORT parameters I use results in excellent quality playback on the iMac while poor quality on the DVD itself.
An additional issue is cropping. The iDVD build (barring the quality issue) appears to be functioning correctly, yet the edges of the MOVIE are cropped no matter the setting on the TV. Is anyone aware of a fix for that?
Thanks to one and all for any recommendations.
Joe Molnar

well for starters DVD's are either 720x480 or a 16x9 version of that (800 something pixels wide, but I can't remember the exact amount), so your 1920 presentation is being scaled down to put on the DVD. If you're then playing it on large TV, it's upscaling a heck of a lot. I suspect the movie is upscaling on the iMac in Quicktime and it looks decent enough to watch, but on a TV, yikes.
There's a lot more at play here, but for the most part, I've never been impressed with the quality of presentations on a TV format like a standard SD DVD. There are some tricks that can help, but I don't have time right now to dig up all my resolution notes. Sorry

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