Watching Movie Burned to DVD on Television

I have recently just started using iMovie and iDVD to capture the video that I am taking of my hockey team that I coach. Each game "tape" is about 45 minutes in length, which comes out to about 10GB on my computer when I import the video. As I understand it iDVD will compress this for me so that it fits on one DVD. What I would like to know is if after I have done this and burned the DVD, when I watch the movie, how large will the resolution be? The reason I ask this is I want to be able to use the DVD to put in a DVD player and show on a television to my team to go over the game in our video sessions. Previously, I have just connected the camcorder to the television and done it that way. However I want to save the game videos for later use and do not want to have to keep a bunch of tapes. Thanks.

I have recently just started using iMovie and iDVD to
capture the video that I am taking of my hockey team
that I coach. Each game "tape" is about 45 minutes
in length, which comes out to about 10GB on my
computer when I import the video. As I understand it
iDVD will compress this for me so that it fits on one
DVD. What I would like to know is if after I have
done this and burned the DVD, when I watch the movie,
how large will the resolution be? The reason I ask
this is I want to be able to use the DVD to put in a
DVD player and show on a television to my team to go
over the game in our video sessions. Previously, I
have just connected the camcorder to the television
and done it that way. However I want to save the
game videos for later use and do not want to have to
keep a bunch of tapes. Thanks.
As you mentioned, iDVD will compress, that is remove certain amount of data per frame, but if you keep your iMovie of each game or practice to less than 60 minutes, the viewing quality of the resulting DVD will be more than sufficient for viewing on TV with a DVD player. The key as far as the DVD itself is concerned is the bit rate, which for the compression involved for a 45 minute video, is about 6 million Bits per second. VHS is (was?) about 2 million bits per second when everything was working. Use Best Performance in iDVD (open iDVD Preferences and look within General) for burning and keep the Themes simple.
The key to the quality in the DVD is the "production" quality that you can achieve during your video taping and for your purposes that may be mainly lighting and color, assuming your video camera is high quality. Having more than one camera recording the game also helps. The idea is to reduce the amount of camera movement as much as possible. Lighting,color and movement(motion) all impact compression process prior to the burn.
As you may know, there is some compression by the video camera to record onto the tape so you are starting with already compressed material.
Although you seem to prefer DVD to tape, tape actually provides greater video detail and color is often better.
Tape is always available for editing, while DVD requires a lot more work to retrieve old material. As long as they are kept in their plastic boxes, tape is more resistant to abuse, such as scratches. And if you are not planning to archive your videos, you can the same tape several times before seeing significant problems during playback. Tape is the preferred medium for archiving.

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