Small type in photoshop menu

I'm trying to create a menu in photoshop for my dvdsp project... I'm a video editor and very new to photoshop... I've read that font sizes should be more than 20pt, but that's not an option for me... i need about 3 paragraphs of copy to go into this menu...not a button, just a description of the contents...
I created my menu in photoshop, using the ntsc preset, 720x480, RGB color and 72 dpi, save it out as a png-24, and insert it DVDSP in a blank menu as a background. My encode settings are CBR at highest possible bitrate.
I've been messing with this for some time... currently the final burned disk looks great on the computer screen, but on the tv using a set top player it's highly pixellated and the small font is unreadable. in fact the 3 lines in the middle of the paragraph appear to be smashed, missing the top and bottom of each line. photos I inserted are also blocky, when they looked great on my laptop using apple's dvd player
I'm so confused. Using the square pixel setting in photoshop is much worse. I need this to play on both computers and televisions... That has to be possible, right? I know they're different beasts but my store bought dvds look the same on both ... how do I do it?
what am I doing wrong?
-Kathy
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As a quick aside just remembered something else that gave that crushed/squeezed look you described, the spacing for the text in PS, sometimes it you move it off of auto line height to something that is less and stilll looks okay on the scrreen, it may looked crushed
Also some combos of text and colors, such as pure white over black, can look funky (bad funky, and not bad meaning good funky, and not music cool funky )...shaking text and so forth
As to the thumbnails it sounds like there is not much to do unlless you can bigger pictures (they sound real small(?))
here is also an audio track from the album playing. I don't need it to do anything else... is a menu the right thing to be using for this? is there another way?
You could make an actual video track that has the text change/description over time and may be able to control the encoding better. May also be interesting becasue you maybe able to get more visuals or info over time
Menus with audio would not let you do that if you are putting song in the menu (if you were going to use more than one screen to use bigger text)

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