Upres before import into Color?

Hi, I have a client who shot a project on NTSC-DV using a PD-150 camera. He wants to color grade and is concerned about also wanting to "upres" the footage at some point.
As far as software based upconversion goes, which is the better route to take. To upres the footage using Compressor before starting with Color? Or to bring the NTSV-DV footage into color, set the room to something like ProRes422 or 10-bit and the just export from Color that way?
I'm confused if bringing DV footage into Color and then exporting it as a higher-rez format counts the same as doing an upres using Compressor?

Thanks for the tips on 24p. I don't know the complete story on the pulldown for this footage, so if the only gain is fewer frames (and I guess faster encoding), then it's not really an issue.
Sorry to keep dragging this on, but now I've got a quick question about the Kona upconversion. I'm working on a machine that has a Kona 3 card, but I don't have the desire to recapture all the tapes again. Can I use the Kona card to uprez the cut of the footage on my machine? Meaning, just working with the Quicktime files.
I've read up on the Kona issue and it seems everything I'm seeing is exclusive to just recapturing the tapes. Like I said, I'm not a huge believer that DV footage will morph into HD looking footage, so I haven't really investigated this too thoroughly.
If I'm just going to make an SD DVD, is there a noticeable change in quality in taking the DV uprez route?

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