Trying to get better video quality!

Greetings All,
Ok, I love my new iPad. I also have an iPhone, and love putting my own movies on it. It's easy to make movies for the iPhone, using QuickTime, I simply take my HD (either 1080p or 720p) source movie, and export it (Movie to iPhone), and it does all the rest. These movies will also play on the iPad, BUT, since they were optimized for the iPhone, they look "pixillated" when enlarged on the iPad. Anybody out there know a simple way to improve the quality of the movies you sync with the iPad?
Thanks,
Dave B

I misspoke, I guess. I don't see an iPad-specific export in iMovie, but "Large" works fine for me. Or, you could probably resize it in other ways to even better match the 1024x768 iPad screen. Something larger than iPod size should look better, regardless of how you get there.
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