Slideshow quality is poor

Successfully completed a many menued slideshow. On screen colour and clarity is great.
When burnt to DVD, quality is quite terrible. Contrast is too high and sharpness and detail is reduced.
Looks like the rendering from computer to DVD is loosing too much information.
How can I improve final picture quality?
(Tried HD, but could not play it; used SD at 16:9 format)

Few things:
First, remember (if this is what is happening) that computer monitors, televison sets etc. all look different (also simulator vs Apple DVD Player). Are you color correcting the photos to look good on a computer? That can be one issue
If you have the chance to use an external tv monitor you may be better off, or if it is not available, run some tests on image adjustments to see which ones work when burned. I often have to tweak the same photo if it is being used for different things (DVD, web or print)
Along the same lines, I have had issues with playback of slide shows in that they often skip and stall on some players for me. I have no idea why (the rest of the disc works fine). It occurred often enough, so that I just do a workaround I like is making the slide show in After Effects, Motion, FCP and even iPhoto and iMovie, encoding it outside of DVD SP, then bringing it in as a track. Of course many others have had success with slideshows, so keep that in mind (and in fact the slideshows work fine on many of my own players and look okay)
Also check your encoding settings for your project When the DVD is built the slideshow is encoded via DVD SP and that may be causing some of the issues.
(You may need to start a new project with the new encode settings, changing settings on an existing project sometimes does not work.)

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