Interlacing for Stills/Animation?

hello guys, hows it going, just a quick question.
So basically i've made a 2D animation in FCE HD consisting entirely on stills/jpegs (1920x1850).
Now, i burned a dvd using toast just to check how it looked (exported as quicktime) and there seems to be a slight jittery-ness/flicker to the video pretty much through out the whole thing when played on a TV. on some of the frames it's slightly worse but only in certain areas of the image.
So searching through the forums i found a bunch of stuff about interlacing and i just wanted to know if you guys could confirm if this may be the issue?
I.e. Should i be be applying the de-interlace filter to the whole animation? if so do you know which of the De-interlace settings would be best?
thanks alot for your help.

Hello, so yeah i just looked through the forum a bit more and found a similar thread where you say that the VGA Display Adapter will only mirror the desktop, so i guess i'm stuck a little.
just to make it a little quicker for could you tell me what the difference is on the flicker filter settings? i really have no idea how that filter works.
for example, if i have a long hold on one jpeg/image where nothing moves (i.e. 10 secs) is there a flicker filter setting that would particularly suit?
similary if i have a bit of fast movement made up of say 20 jpegs at 00.02 seconds each, i.e. say a person walking across the screen, then should those jpegs be applied with a different flicker setting?
thanks for all the help.

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