Why would the quality of text become degraded when slideshow project is burned to DVD

I created 25 slideshows in Aperture, exported them as mov files, then imported them into iMovie to make one large slideshow with chapters. Then I exported this iMovie project to iDVD. After creating a theme I burned the project to a disk image. It was at this point that the comments on each photo that I had incorporated back in the Aperture phase, looked like severe jpg compression while the photos themselves did not appear degraded. Can anyone explain why that happened, and what I can do about it? I was using the latest version of Aperture, iMovie '08 and iLife '08 on an iMac running OS 10.6.7

There are a couple of issues.
First: The Aperture images used in iDVD are the Aperture PREVIEW images; you need to go into Apperture's preferences and increase the size of the preview images (Preference>Previews).  A better solution (in my opinion) is to actually export the image from Aperture at a reasonable size (for NTSC, something like 854x480; for PAL, 1024x576) to a folder on your desktop and use THOSE exported images..  Note that going to larger sizes won't give better quality - and may, in fact, slightly reduce the quality because of the Quicktime interpolation that will be required in iDVD.
Second:  DVDs are low resolution devices (like 640x480 pixels for NTSC) and can not maintain small type.  See http://homepage.mac.com/prof_pixel/text_test_iLife09.html for an experiment I did a couple of years ago for some type size examples.

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