DVD looks great on CRT... awful on Plasma

Is it possible to write video to a DVD that will look good on both CRT and Plasma/LCD televisions?
When burning a recent video (24pA, anamorphic, SD) to DVD, the result looks fantastic on an old 13-inch CRT I have, but it looks absolutely awful on my 37-inch plasma. Pixelation, graininess, and other unwanted digital elements show up on the plasma but not at all on the CRT. I've upped the bit rate and double checked all other Compressor settings as per recommendations from several other threads and the Compressor Help Manual, but the result is always the same: GREAT quality (for SD) on CRT... HORRIBLE quality on Plasma.
General advice when editing video in FCP is to view your canvas on a CRT monitor. Now that CRT is on the way out (if not out already), is it wiser to stay within the digital realm and avoid CRT altogether?
I can't be sure what the viewing medium for the DVD will be on the other end when I send it out, so I'd like it to be universally good on CRT, Plasma/LCD television and computer monitors.
Thank you!

Do you mean pixelated, or do you mean that you are seeing combing artifacts?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinterlacing#FieldCombinationDeinterlacing
The Apple DVD player does not deinterlace unless it is set to. And then it is not deinterlacing in the manner that gives you results similar to watching it on a CRT. When watching on a CRT, you are seeing 60 fields a second. To do that properly on the progressive display of your computer, the software would need to do a bob deinterlace, giving 60 complete frames a second. But the Apple DVD Player does not do that, so the motion looks wrong if you are looking at video rather than film.
You could try opening the same disc in VLC, and then select Deinterlace:bob from the video menu. I'm guessing it will look better.
For your plasma, it might be the same problem. Perhaps your DVD player has a setting involving progressive output or deinterlacing, and it is doing it wrong.

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