How can I get a better looking NTSC video showing on an Apple TV?

Filming on Mini DV tapes using a JVC GY-DV500 camcorder. Capturing via Firewire 400.
What I've been doing is capturing and editing with the DV NTSC 48 khz presets. I export "using QuickTime conversion" for Apple TV. The problem I have is that the video looks extremely pixelated when viewing it on the screen or computer. It looks like square pixels instead of non-square.
I realize that I'm blowing up a 720x480 signal onto an HD screen hooked to an HD source, but it's still a very low-quality look for that. I've tried setting the Apple TV to 480p or exporting at different qualities using different codecs.
If I try to capture with a different preset (ie. DV50 NTSC) I get the error that it had trouble reading from the source tape. (Is that because it's going through a daisy chain? The camcorder has FW400 but the Mac Pro only has a bunch of FW800.)
My thought process is that an SD television channel looks much better than this so my SD material should be equal quality. Where am I losing it? Capture? Editing? Export?

I don't know what AppleTV can handle as far as bit rate is concerned, but increase the bit rate as high as it will let you. You are taking DV which is 25Mb/s and compressing it. If you're making an H.264, you should get great results needing no more than 6Mb/s. Bear in mind, the higher the bit rate, the larger the file size.

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