Viewing iDVD on 50 inch Plasma tv.

I'm always disappointed when I play my newly created DVD on my home DVD player into a 50 inch plasma HD TV. Photo size is always small. Is there a way to make the photos play full screen? There is 6 inches of black around all the photos. The photos originally were 6 mega pixels on a digital SLR camera. It seems that the process of importing photos into iDVD renders a serious downsize in file size. I've already tried all possible TV adjustments.

Hi Michael
Don't forget that at present, iDVD only renders all image files or DV material to SD resolution. i.e 640 x 480 pixels. That is regardless of your original source.
So here's looking forward to iDVD 9 or ?10 which, coupled with an HD or BluRay DVD burner will then be able to render true HD material.
I think the title iMovie HD is slightly misleading, because it leads one to think that iMovies or slideshows can then be rendered via iDVD as HD but they can't.
Hope that's helpful.

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