Poor image quality on TV?

Hi all.
I just wanted to know if anyone was having trouble with "hot" images when viewing a movie made in iDVD. I've made a few movies and watched them on several TV sets, and the images appear very contrasty. Sometimes the images even "bleed" red around the edges of certain photographs. They look fine on my Mac, but once I burn them out to DVD, they look horrible. Just wondering if there is a fix for this?
17" PowerBook G4 1.67 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.5)

I just wanted to know if anyone was having trouble
with "hot" images when viewing a movie made in iDVD.
I've made a few movies and watched them on several
TV sets, and the images appear very contrasty.
Going to MPG2 causes images to become very slightly darker. See my pages Digital video color bar test at http://homepage.mac.com/profpixel/color_bars/colorbars.htm and iMovie HD/iDVD 5 Gray Patch Test at http://homepage.mac.com/profpixel/gray_patches/graypatches.htm
TV sets are frequently set-up to be more contrasty than computer monitors.
Sometimes the images even "bleed" red around the
edges of certain photographs. They look fine on my
Mac, but once I burn them out to DVD, they look
horrible.
That's NTSC chroma smear. I have a TV set (Toshiba) that is very bad in this respect.
Just wondering if there is a fix for this?
The contrast difference and smearing aren't a fault of iDVD so I guess the answer is no.

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