Poor CD photo quality

After creating a slideshow, adding audio, then burning slideshow to CD or DVD, the CD or DVD photo quality is terribly  out of focus. Pictures are blurry, or generally distorted. The photoshop images are clean and focused. What is the problem here, and how might I fix it
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If you only have PSE and are making a VCD, you bet it's lousy. That's just the limitation of the format. Better to output your slideshow as a wmv file and then use whatever burning software you have (if you have a DVD burner, you have the software) to make it into a video dvd.

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