WHY have my iDVDs stopped playing correctly?

I would appreciate any help very much.
I have used the same Mac, media, and DVD player for at least a year. When I make a DVD, I check it on a PS3 and a DVD player seperately to ensure they work. I'm a wedding photographer, and provide simple video slideshows on a DVD to my clients.
I burn a DVD from iDVD exactly as I have done countless times, and when its put in the DVD player it "squishes" the image on the menu and video and doubles text over itself in the menu, and there is a green line running down the right side of the screen. Plays fine on the DVD player.
-NTSC
-Professional Quality burn
-Slidshow is created in iPhoto from a book and exporting directly >iPhoto>Share>Export to iDVD
-Have all software updates in place
-Have restarted program and computer
-Have changed aspect ratio from wide to normal with no effect.
-Media is the same
PLEASE help I'm so frustrated! Thanks!

Hi
DVD-burners get's old
If You burn more than three DVDs in a row without pause to let DVD-Laser cool down - they grow older faster or even over-feat and die. My get's 20-30 minutes to cool down.
Free space on Start-Up hard disk - use to give problems - I never go under 25Gb free space when doing SD-Video and 4-5 times more if HD-material is used
Material feed into iDVD - there are more and more codecs coming and iDVD is picky. Some it can back-engineer to a working form - others not. A while ago this was no problem but as Cameras evolves this gives more and more problems. I convert all my material into a few working codecs/file formats as
• Video - AIC or streamingDV
• Photos - only as .jpg (Never .bmp)
• Audio - only .aiff (Never .mp3, .wma etc)
Forced or Panic Halts - introduces small errors (most often into the application pref. file) and builds up a coming disaster. Trashing this from time to time prevent's this and make application run better.
Just my spontaneous thoughts.
Yours Bengt W

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