Pixelated Playback

How come my image looks pixelated on when i use the full screen video playback.
I imported regular 30p shot footage from a dvx100b into fcp at the NTSC easy setup. The image looks fine in the canvas and the viewer while they are smaller but when i try to view it through the full screen video playback it loses resolution a lot....am i doing something wrong.
I appreciate any suggestions

sorry been gone for a minute....i was just viewing multiple projects through the digital desktop preview cinema raw and all of the footage looks fine...so it is not the camera....however on my SD footage when i view raw the frame is much smaller than the monitor....and the HD footage actually when raw is too big for the monitor so i had to view that through the digital desktop preview-full screen and it was fine....
so after that and having just read your post im left with the puzzle of how to show this (SD) project with as minimal resolution loss as possible....
your dvd solution seems to be the most economical for me at this time...how about settings...is their a setting in fcp or compressor to convert for viewing on a regular NTSC or well now I have HDTV...oh god ....help me out here...lol

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