Quality of photos on burned DVD no where near original files

The quality of the photos in a slideshow I burned to DVD using iDVD 6.0 are NO WHERE near the quality of the un-edited original files. It's so bad I wouldn't even give the DVD to someone.
What gives? I chose "High Quality" encoding in iDVD.
I was expecting the photos to be burned as-is and to be viewable at the full, high level resolution.
Am I missing a setting?
Thanks!

What gives? I chose "High Quality" encoding in iDVD.
Use Best Performance instead. (Provided Playback is under 60 mins.) This will help slightly.
But overall you must keep in mind that DVD's are considered low resoltion devices. Often the still image quality is less than one third of a megapixel. And there's only so much you can do with this until we see Blue Ray Burners widely used on most macs.
Also, in the meantime you may want to check out a few 3rd party apps that specialize in slideshow production:
http://lqgraphics.com/phototomovie.php
http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/overview/

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