Staircase edges on DV video

Just a quick question...whenever I import DV video into Motion, the quality is not quite as good, and the edges on curved sections in the video are "staircased", but the same video in FCP looks great. I have tried changing almost every setting in Motion with no luck. Any thoughts?

Actually, I have the video going out to a tv monitor, where it has the staircase edges as well. The video itself is not interlaced either...it was shot with a Panasonic DVX100B in progressive mode 23.98fps. I actually even did try to change the field order between Lower and Upper, while toggling the Field Rendering button on and off. Turning on Lower fields with field rendering solved the problem with the video, but added interlacing to all my moving graphics which looked terrible. I can't find a good solution.

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