Poor Color on TV after Transcoding with Encore

The color is bad when I view the DVD on my (Panasonic) DVD/VCR-TV that I created with PP/Encore; whereas, when the same DVD is run on my computer the colors are fine. They look just like the originals I worked on in Photoshop. So the problem appears to be with the way the TV is processing the data.
I created the slideshow of 260 photos in PP CS3; then exported to Encore and authored/burned from there without changing anything.
On TV, the images are more contrasty, and the colors seem hotter. Brown looks orange, etc.
I've adjusted the picture settings on the TV, but with little effect.
There's a similar issue when I run the DVD on my Phillips DVD player, but not as pronounced.
Is there some way to correct the colors after the file's been rendered in Premiere Pro and transcoded/authored in Encore?

When the Project was still in PrPro, did you monitor it on a feed to a calibrated NTSC (or PAL) CRT monitor? If you only judged it on the Program Monitor in PrPro, you could well be off. Going back to when the images were in PS, how is your monitor calibrated? Did you use a profile for NTSC (or PAL) Video, or perhaps one for CMYK printing, or RGB display?
Have you tried your DVD on another TV? Unfortunately, most TV's are improperly calibrated. To use one to judge, you should invest in a calibration disc, and run through the setup proceedure. This takes some time and some tweaking, but would be well worth it. Unfortunately, even after you have done this, and all looks perfect on your calibrated TV, you have no control over how the client's TV will be set up. If it's out of the box, with factory settings, it's likely to be way off. That is the unfortunate nature of video. It is actually easier to calibrate one's computer for, say CMYK print work, including their scanner, printers, cameras and monitor, than it is to get great video on several different TV's. Multiply that problem by the different types (and ages) of the displays and it gets out of hand in a hurry.
If you have a friendly retailer, especially one with high-end TV that HAVE been calibrated, ask if you can test your DVD on one of their systems.
Other than the necessary Transcoding to MPEG-2 and the changes in image quality there, Encore should not be changing the gamma, or the color. Also, remember that you are first judging your images on a higher-rez progressive computer monitor, and then compressing the files to a DVD with only the NTSC, or PAL resolution. No TV will ever look as good as a well-calibrated computer screen. That is one reason to view critically only on a true TV monitor fed from PrPro via FireWire.
Let's hope that it's just the device that you are checking the DVD on, but my $ would be on that as the likely problem.
Good luck,
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