Why poor quality slide show?

I own a 20" iMac purchased last January. I just produced my first slide show by sending some travel photos from iPhoto to iDVD and then burning them to a DVD. The results were very disappointing. The photos looked poor, either when viewing them on my TV set or on my computer. The original photos were high quality JPEGs taken with a Nikon D200 and looked great, but the same photos in the slide show were not nearly as sharp and looked like they were out of focus. I am wondering why the quality of the photos was degraded in the process. I will appreciate any insights on what might have gone wrong and suggestions on what I can do to produce an acceptable slide show.
Also, I did not program any music to be played along with the slide show, but when I played it, lo and behold, there was a musical accompaniment throughout the entire show. The music piece was nice, but it was a short composition that repeated itself innumerable times during the show to the point where I muted it. I would also like to know why I got music that I didn't program into the slide show.
Bob

Read what F Shippey and Old Toad say iin these 2 threads:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5513037&#5513037
and
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4988057&#4988057
Sue

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