HVX200 720PN covert to DV Looks BAAAAAD!

I shot some footage with an HVX200 in 720 PN mode. It looks fantastic however, I need to convert it to DV NTSC for a friend who has another project that is entirely DV. When I take the 720 footage and drop it into a DV timeline or convert it to DV it looks like ***. It looks worse than if I had upscaled DV footage to 1080. What gives?
If anyone can help me trouble shoot what I thought would have been a dead easy conversion, I'd be very happy.
Thanks in advance.

Hmmm.
Perhaps I spoke too soon. Sorry all.
As soon as I render that beautiful looking sequence, it once again looks like ***, which is baffling.
This is what the image looks like, unrendered in the timeline.
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii140/Bentleysuper8/Picture9-1.png
This is what the same image looks like rendered.
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii140/Bentleysuper8/Picture10.png
And this is what it looks like recompressed using Media Manager.
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii140/Bentleysuper8/Picture11.png
I find it baffling and hard to believe that FCP cannot handle this. I even used the format conversion tool in compressor and it doesn't look good. Absolutely inconceivable.
I also captured the video on a second rig, exported to my DSR11 from my Kona, and still looks awful. Very frustrating.
EDIT: Following is the close up unrendered.
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii140/Bentleysuper8/Picture14.png
Message was edited by: Paul Whishaw1
Message was edited by: Paul Whishaw1

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