Optimum Pixel size for Video????

I used to make my video files 720x486 (0.9px) D1 and they would come out nice... now with iDVD 6 It seems to be scrunching my video (adding small black bars on top and bottom) and causing distortion. What is the optimum video pixel size for the standard and widescreen settings of iDVD??
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Quoting F Shippey:
If you live in 'NTSC land', Apple suggests that you use 720x540 pixel images for standard video and 854x480 pixel images for widescreen.
See: Preparing images for iDVD slideshows at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6675.html
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