Scanned pictures blurry when viewed in iPhoto

I scanned old film pictures to desktop, then imported to iPhoto11. Images in viewed in Preview are clear but appear mostly blurry in iPhoto11. Can anyone assist?

Thank you for your reply. It seems if I use the arrow keys to go forward and back between pictures, they are clear. So not sure if they were just loading....but the pictures all seem OK now. thanks

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My Apple TV will not show my photos in iPhoto on my iMac in the same sequence of images that I can see when viewing the iPhoto photos on my iMac. This is especially frustrating when I try to show my travel pictures in sequence on my TV. I have to resort to showing them on my iMac which defeats the principle purpose for purchasing my MacTV. Does anyone have a solution?
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Thank you Paul, Steve.
Ok. I just checked my size in terms of pixels, at.....
200 dpi= 680 x 1010
300 dpi= 1020 x 1546
With that said, I am assuming that the higher the dpi count, the bigger the size (pixel wise). Could it be a issue of the picture being used "being too big" and PE is automatically converting it to what the preset optimum dimensions are? As a result, making the pictures blurry?
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Hi
DVD is as standard - only interlaced SD-Video (as on old CRT-TVs) and can never be any better than this.
This is less than a quarter of Your Mac screen resolution.
That's one part of Why You can see High res. on Your Mac - and not on DVD.
Next part is what program is used to make the SlideShow.
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