Picture quality gets lowered after burning:(

Whenever I burn a disc, on the compuer its amazing quality, but the disc is much lower. I burned it in professional quality, NTSC.
I'm using Memorex DVD-r.

DVDs are LOW resolution devices by today's standards. NTSC you are only getting around 640x480 pixels (in square pixel terms) - that's only about 0.3 megapixels!! In addition, the MPG-2 compression used on standard DVDs is VERY lossy.
Someday, when we are burning Blu-ray discs, things will get better.

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