I recently turned a 360x480 interlaced NTSC capture into an MPEG-II by using TMPGEnc Plus. I want the resulting file to be playable on TV, so I chose 'Interlaced' under Encode in the Expert options menu. I also used 2-Pass VBR to encode (min: 2000, avg: 6000, max: 8000). When I play the MPEG2 file back in Windows Media Player (using the freedvd codec), the video doesn't seem to be interlaced. It appears to have been de-interlaced using blend mode, but I can't tell if that's the actual file, or if the codec is de-interlacing on the fly.

My Ti4200 has a TV-out connector, so I'm thinking about using that to check the quality of my interlaced file. Is this possible - will playing an interlaced file on a TV-out look like the real thing?