Master DVD - to de-interlace or not??

I'm mastering a 90 minute docu to DVD. The original is HDV. I'm using Compressor to make the MPEG2.
Half the audience will see it on their computers, the other half on their NTSC screens. Is there a 'standard' protocol out there now for DVD's? Whether to de-interlace for better computer LCD viewing, or leave interlaced for NTSC screens?
All ears,
Ben

I also did a short production in HDV and made copies in SD DVD and then compressed to h.264 for web. You can see the result here:
link:[http://www.kpbs.org/artsevents/books/enriquesjourney]
I know it's small, not my decision or dept. but as you can see there are no interlacing issues. I did not deinterlace, just simply converted the file to h.264. If you are wondering I cut it in native HDV and not ProRess.
If in doubt simply make a 30 second version of your doc in the final formats it'll be and view then how the viewers will. Hope this helps.

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But so many are using computers and LCD screens now ... the interlacing is a bit obvious. Should I be de-interlacing for my DVD MPEG2's now?
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De-interlacing is not the magical cure-all that many seem to to think.
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When you play your DVD on a set top player with a CRT screen, it will be displayed correctly.
Using the DVD player in Mac OS X, there is an option in the View menu to de-interlace on playback with three quality settings. The best one is "Adaptive" and only applied as and when needed.
LCD television displays have similar settings. All are preferable to stripping out half the information in your master file before it has even been burned to disc.
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To interlace or not to interlace...

I've got a project where I'm mixing HDV 720P and DVCAM 60i footage. I'm using ProRes as my timeline codec. My final destination is DVD. So to maintain the sharpest image for TV on DVD playback I'm wondering whether I should have interlacing on in Sequence Settings. I know that Compressor will interlace anyway as part of the DVD Best Quality transcode, so I'm wondering whether interlacing in my timeline is good or bad for my footage, particularly the progressive stuff. Or is the difference negligible? Any thoughts? Just to complicate matters I also have some HDV 1080i shots as well. They have the shift fields filter applied to modify from upper to lower.

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