TV, extreme and airport disk

Choosing export settings for TV is doing my head in. I have a substantial home movie library which consists of .dv files which I had also encoded as AVC in a .mov format using QT Pro.
Just before the TV came out I decided that my movies looked better done in mpegstreamclip with AVC as .m4p. So I trashed my .mov collection and started building a .mp4 library. Now my TV has arrived I have discovered my streamclip exports don't work with TV and I have struggled to get any output from streamclip that will.
I have since tried the TV preset for QT Pro and whilst the movies encoded this way do work with TV they don't appear to be deinterlaced which makes them poor quality on high motion action.
So now I seem to be re encoding everything in the same format as I originally trashed and have also now discovered I can't change the artwork of a .mov file in itunes, so I have yet to find something I am satisfied with.
Any one any ideas, what are you guys using for converting .dv for TV.

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