Loss of resolution when using color

I have been sending my project to color and when it arrives in color it is noticeably softer and when it returns to FCP and is put next to original clip it does not have the same resolution. I am sending it using the AJA Kona LH 720p 23fr 8 bit codec and not changing the settings in color. If I take all the original clips and make 10 bit movies of them and put them on a timeline they go over and back with the same resolution, however if I try to export 10bit from the timeline I still get soft images. Is there something I am missing in this process? Also the color is vastly different between FCP and Color so I am always guessing what it will look like when it gets back to FCP I am using a Panasonic BT LH1700wp High defintion monitor. Thanks for your help.

Always a challenge to start approaching a situation like this that appears to have some global problems -- ie, its probably not the application, because it works for so many other users in a completely predictable manner, so ... we're left with guesswork.
I'm not sure if I understand that the AJA Kona LH 720p 23fr 8 bit format is a "codec" per se. Is it DVCProHD or not? Or are you actually trying to send some form of RGB?
Seems like something is happening when 10-bit is exported that COLOR seems to have less of a problem with. When you export 10 bit... is that Uncompressed? Is there any "scaling" going on? Even if its in the background, ie 720 up to 1080, not recommended, especially if there is an anamorphic conversion going on.
If there is a vast color difference, then using an external grading solution doesn't appear to be the right choice in this instance. In effect, its a direct violation of 'do no harm'... guesswork is not acceptable. I don't know what a BT LH1700wp is, what it looks like, or how its fed, or what its calibrated to, or what its doing internally... If you are also monitoring the FCP output with the same path and the picture being fed to it still reproduces differently, (even eliminating possible internal FCP settings which may not be working in High Precision), there is not much to go on here...
Keep stabbing away...
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