Lost colour in burned DVD

I have made over 10 DVDs from iMovie Projects, successfully on my Dual 2.5GHz PowerPC G5 running OS 10.3.6, with iMovie and iDVD both 4.0.1. This week I burned a small (13 minute run time) iMovie to DVD. When I play it through my Sony CMT-M7 00DVD player into my Sony TV, it plays the sound fine but I have lost colour! This is a first. As soon as the disc loads, the colour in the ‘DVD player’ screen goes to B/W. My tv preferences dialogue boxes show colour on the same screen as the B/W movie. It plays colour fine in my neighbour’s machine! Other DVDs I have made play in colour. Any suggestions about some changed setting that I should use on my mac when burining, would be appreciated.

Can you confirm you are using iDVD 7 from iLife 8?
This will not run on Tiger, it requires Leopard.
If you are running iDVD 6 you are in the wrong forum, but we will carry on here!
Previewing in iDVD is not the same as previewing the final version prior to burning.
To preview the final version, without wasting another DVD blank, go to File menu and click on Save as Disk Image.
This creates the final version and does all the rendering etc short of the actual burn.
If you open DVD Player you can play that Disk Image as though it was a DVD.
If everything works, only then burn to a DVD. In this case use Disk Utility to burn the DVD - or better still, invest in Toast.
As for the audio drop-outs, are you sure you are using AIFF files that are not DRM copy protected?

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