Watch Photo's on a TV

I guess there are a few ways to take photo's and see them on a TV. some that I have used are:
1. Import into iMovie, add titles, transitions, music, etc., and then use iDVD.
2. Bring photo's directly into iDVD
My DVD player says it reads Video CD's so I gather that I can bring photo's into Toast and burn a VCD. Is that right?
I have seen new DVD players that have a "jpeg viewer." Does that mean I can simply drag photo's onto a CD-R and burn them?
I have a lot of old photo's that we want to be able to just scroll through on a TV without all of the effort of using iMovie or iDVD. What are our options?

Hi Lauren,
many recommend here to let iDVD render stills, because of better quality.... so your method 2) produces maybe better results...
VideoCDs have a much smaller resolution then DVDs (about a quarter); I would recommend to produce SVCD (yepp, S as super), normally, a DVDplayer which is able to handle VCD accepts SVCD too... SVCD is some inbetween in quality between VCD and DVD....
jepg viewer: you need to burn a "ISO 9660 compatible" disk with toast; simply drag your pics onto Toast; BEWARE: just 8digits, no %üß$§" special signs in file names.... (GrafikKonverter has a nice batch tool for renaming files, should be preinstalled on your Mac); I'm not sure about the resolution which are allowed... make a test or ask the manual...
hope I could help!

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