Shadowy jerky effect on slo-mo shots when played back on television monitor

Has anybody else noticed this problem?
When playing back a movie edited in imovie 4 on a DVD-R through a television monitor all the slo-mo shots have a shadowy jerky effect on them. They don't play smoothly as they do when the same DVD-R is played back on my computer monitor.
Any suggestions on how to fix this would be appreciated. It ruins the whole effect of the slo-mo.
Emac 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Did iMovie prompt you to render the project when sending to iDVD. Slo-mo needs the deinterlacing that process does -- otherwise the output is jerky on a TV.
See also a related iMovie 4-6 bug you should be aware of:
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/iMovieHD_6_bugs.html#jaggystills
And besides, you get better quality slo-mo with 3rd party apps:
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_aMacintosh.html#speed

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