Quality of Photos after Making a movie is bad on TV

I routinely make movies of photos i take (in iPhoto), and the final product looks great on my computer monitor...but the quality on tv is not impressive at all. I have a high definition TV, and the photos are shot at high resolution, and the quality is just as bad whether I burn the final project on DVD (using iDVD), or output it from my video ipod to my TV.
I am thinking there must be a way that I can make the final output much better to be presented on tv.
If you need to know, i am using imovie 6.0.2
Any suggestions?

Hello Napoleon,
i don't have a real solution for you but one thing is this:
if you create a movie (even in HDV format), then burn it to DVD you will have some quality loss as you're compressing the source material to mpeg2 - sorry no HD-DVD yet. the only thing that will really look good on your HDTV is a HD source directly connected to your TV.
as for the photo aspect: pictures are different from video as explained in this article:
http://www.scantips.com/no72dpi.html
the original link was posted in this FCP thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=486009&tstart=0
it's really about scanning, but i think it provides some really good insight .... as well as a good laugh
hope this helps
viva la mela

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