resolution for DVD?

Question: What is the best image size/resolution for DVD!?

I'm burning a DVD with images from Photoshop CS2!. What is the best image size and resolution for the images and text so they don't look fuzzy and pixelated!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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A standard DVD can hold a lot of images at all sorts of resolution, but the question I have is what is it being presented on!. Standard DVD's can hold up to 4!.7 GB of information, that's a lot of photos/images (if you put on the average 6-8 megapixel image on there, that should be around 1!.2 MB's per image if it is compressed JPG, that would be around 3,900 images!.

(If it isn't on a TV set, then don't worry about the rest of this mumbo jumbo!.)

Now if you're going to present it on a TV set, the maximum resolution that NTSC standard DVD can present on a screen is 720 x 576 pixels!. Standard format is 640 x480!. Compressed JPGs in 640 x 480 would be hundreds of thousands of images!. To utilize the maximum DVD resolution, you'll have to ensure that the set that it's being presented is using Composite cables or HDMI cables!. S-Video connected systems are a little better, but still limited to 640 x 480!. Bear in mind that 640x480 is by no means what is presented on a TV screen!. That's the overscan size, not the actual visual size!. The actual visual size is 525 lines!.

I should also mention that the first paragraph is digital, while the second is an analogue representation (you'll need special software to make your images into true mpeg-2 DVD video!. If this is all digital then choose a high resolution (1600 x 1200) is probably going to be fine and you can put tens of thousands of images onto a DVD without any quality issues!.Www@QuestionHome@Com