Quality of digital photos is poor when I make a DVD

I spent hours putting together a slide show of wedding photos set to music using Imovie. These are professional shots that are high quality digital stills. I used the Ken Burns effect on them as well. When I burned my DVD and played it on my television the quality is decreased. anything that is shiny (e.g. jewelery) sparkles and it looks quite odd. What did I do wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated

msf,
Welcome to the Apple Discussion Forums.
Your expectations of what you can get may be too high. NTSC video is 640x480 pixels AT BEST and there is no way you can match the quality of high resolution digital images viewed on a computer monitor of 1280x1024 (or higher) resolution on an NTSC TV screen.
See iDVD 6.0 Help - Preparing images for DVD slideshows at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/17.html for an idea of what to expect.
anything that is shiny (e.g. jewelery) sparkles and it looks quite odd.
This sounds like an interlacing effect - the image you see on a TV set (Frame) is actually made up of two separate images (Fields) each with half of the image scan lines. If parts of the two matching Fields are very different (like areas of high sharpness) these area of the image will seem to flicker

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