Quality issues with slideshow images - jpg or pdf or ai files

Hi
I'm trying to put a iDVD slide show graphic design portfollio together which consists of jpg, pdf and illustrator CS .ai files plus some small movie clips.
All looked great when i had it all set up in iDVD and i ran the slide show. Then i burnt the disk and played it back on both a DVD player and my mac book pro and the images are all pixilated and fuzzy. Has anyone had this problem with trying to do a graphic portfollio rather than just photo's and movies?
Cheers, Travisnoonoo

Try this:
http://www.lqgraphics.com/phototomovie.php
and read this also:
http://homepage.mac.com/profpixel/iDVD_6size.html
Good luck.

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I am a volunteer, and not a paid staff of Lenovo or Microsoft

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