Why is the quality of my burned DVD (IMovie) so inferior?

I made a slide show with my digital photos using Imovie which looks great, but when I burned it to a DVD using IDVD, and then watched it on my TV the quality was not nearly as clear. I chose "large" when I was setting up the IDVD program. Is there something else I should be doing or is that just normal? Thanks so much.

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Very frustrating. While we wait for the next 3 and a half hours for the next DVD to burn, perhaps someone can explain to me the process of getting a high quality dvd after I'm imported HD into iMOVIE.
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Here's a solution that I did. An answer. Step by step. I'll post the other questions one at a time to see if there are answers to those as well.
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iMovie
(Be sure and note EXACTLY what you called the movie because you will need to find it later. Try to make the name as unique as possible, dates, times, version as you may not be able to easily find it.)
Share>Media Browser
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Wait.......
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Find your movie.
I"ll wait.....
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