Exporting shapness with codec choice

Has anyone noticed DVCPRO HD looks a bit blurry when exported to SD DVD? I am having trouble reading some of my Motion created text and such, but have notice better results exporting my whole DVCPRO HD sequence as Uncompressed. Does anyone have some insight into this workflow? I wouldn't think much would be gained through up-converting since the footage was shot in the compressed DVCPRO HD codec, yet things looks sharper and text more legible.

Thanks for that Michael, I have heard of bitvice but have yet to dive into it. My normal workflow after editing (using any codec, not just dvcpro hd) is to export a quicktime file from FCP 6 (not a quicktime conversion) and taking that into compressor 3 for mpeg encoding - using the best 90min preset.
What I've seen in my experiments is that the uncompressed codecs (as well as the animation codec) seem to make the blurry softness go away and we see the hard pixels when magnified. It's as if the dvcpro codecs have a slight blur between pixels to give the image an overall soft look (and probably save disk space), which works for most footage, but becomes a problem when text is added overtop. I'm thinking this isn't a problem with the dvcpro hd codec,compressor, or my workflow, that's just how it renders it's image, but I think its becoming more of a question of should there be a slight blurriness to the final file or should it be rendered 100% hard and clean?
As you can tell, I'm not a pro and am still learning all the techie parts of production, so any feedback on these concepts would be greatly appreciated.

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