Why won't my TV DVD Player read my IDVD?

I created an IDVD using the Revolution template with 6 Subfolder slide shows.  Everything was indicated to be successful.  When I tried to play it on my TV's DVD, the DVD couldn't be read the disc (It was a Verbatim 4.7 GB DVD+RW). I spoke with Apple IT Support for quite some time and they were unable to help me find a solution.  Second issue: When I played the IDVD back on my Mac, the typeface and the images were not sharp.  To test the sharpness of my images I looked at them in IPhoto and they were very sharp.  Can anyone help solve these problems please? 

DVD+RW is the probably not supported by your player. Use a DVD-R instead. Also create a disk image of the project first before burning, test it with DVD Player, then burn with Disk Utility at slow speed (2-4x).
You'll need to understand that still images and video are two different beasts and that the conversion from hi-res stills to highly compressed video is problematic at best. Also, viewing on your Mac is different from viewing on TV. One thing you try is to set encoding to "Best Performance" if your content doesn't exceed 60 min.
If you are not happy with the results you can try other software such as Photo to Video or Fotomagico.
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