Movie looks very grainy with diluted colour on tv

Hi everyone,
I just burnt my first movie to dvd last night and with excitement put in into my dvd player and hit play. Thankfully everything worked fine but the picture was surprisingly very grainy and lacked colour. I turned the tv colour up to 100% and that fixed it a little but it's still lacking. Is there anything I can do about either?
Many thanks,
Jeremy

Well, I just used the menu in iPhoto5 that says "Export to iDVD" after I had setup my slideshow, so I expected it to be compatible. But I have not as yet tried to use iDVD with other apps. Not even to export my .AVI movies from my digital camera.
But previously, I had used Powerpoint to make a slideshow, and this offers the possibility of turning the slideshow into a film, and there also, the film that came out was very considerably grainy, to the extent of not being acceptable to watch.
So maybe it's a general drawback of the system that makes all still photos grainy when you turn the slideshows into films?

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