Saving to play on a DVD Player

Just finishied my first keynote project! Very excited. Boss now wants to turn it into a lobby display. Great, but small problem how do I save this so it can play on a DVD player. I am refering to the old syle sit ontop of a TV model?

I just ran a series of tests using Keynote 2 exports:
a small slide show (3 slides) with still images which started life in iPhoto as about 2500x1800 and one at 290x155. The background of one was a "chalkboard" at 640x 384. I used a custom handwriting font just to get a worst case of diagonal lines. All the photos were rotated about 30 degrees.
I exported as NTSC DV Pro 780x540, the "default" Sorensen 3 at 800x600, and uncompressed 10 bit 4:2:2. The resulting file sizes are 41mb, 5.5mb, and 340mb, respectively.
iDVD accepted all of the movies without problems. I used iDVD to compress and create a disk image of the resulting "DVD."
DV format was noticeably the worst: the 4:1:0 color sampling caused severe red striping (as expected), but the text was OK (white against a green chalkboard); the Sorensen 3 was nearly as good as the uncompressed; the biggest difference was the handwriting font text: it was just a bit rougher; it appeared rougher than the DV version; the best of (big surprise here...not), the uncompressed, but not by much over the sorensen-3.
I also compressed the three movies in compressor 1.2.1 and when viewed by Quicktime (with the mpeg2 option), the results were the same as with iDVD using 60 minute "high quality" compression preset.
Note also that the DV version was significantly "lighter" than the others, and lighter than the Keynote source. Compressor darkened it again as if it knows about DV set up issues, so that the final mpeg2 versions were pretty close in color, with the DV one appearing just a bit less saturated.
My overall suggestion is to give the Sorensen-3 compression a try when exporting for iDVD use.
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