Watching DV(interlaced) on a native Progressive display (via DVD)

[jmann]

So, my DV tapes are all interlaced. They were recorded on a camcorder that only records in 29.97-480i. This has been fine in the past, but in the future, they will be viewed on natively progressive displays (LCD-panne, LCD-projection, Plasma, PC, etc.)

Is there an advantage to deinterlacing the video before encodeing to DVD which would be viewed on these progressive TVs?

I just expect that using good software to deinterlace and storing the video that way would produce a better image than relying on the hardware deinterlacers of the TVs. Am I correct?

[edDV]

Every LCD HDTV will have an internal deinterlacer. Most will outperform any simple software deinterlace. All analog TV, SD 480i and 1080i must be deinterlaced as well.

A good quality LCD HDTV will have motion adaptive deinterlacing and "cinema" IVTC.

For PC, you would use a deinterlacing media player (e.g. PowerDVD, WinDVD, VLC, etc.).