Using Standard DVD clips in a Blue Ray production

A few questions -
Are there any tricks if I had a full HD project and I wanted to inset a few scenes from a standard DVD into this?
Also  I have a number of DVDs I made with a good quality DVtape camera some  years ago and wondered if there would be any benefit converting them to  Blue Ray?  The old DVDs look noticably better played on my Blue Ray  player (HDMI 1900x1080) than on my old standard DVD player (component  video) so it may be a matter of whether PRE's upscaling would be better  than that of the player?
I still have the old source DV  tapes so would be any better again to make a new HD project using this  SD video and burn it to blue ray upscaled?
Or is there other software that will do this better?

What Steve said.
The only viable option for using SD (Standard Def) material in an HD (High Def) Project is to use a program to up-rez the SD DVD-quality, prior to Import.
One such program, that gets good reviews, is Red Giant's Magic Bullet Instant HD, which is a plug-in for PrPro, but at the last time that I checked, was NOT available for PrE. I have not heard of anyone finding a way to use it, in PrE, but perhaps someone has.
There are other similar programs, and if one found a good one, that was either a stand-alone, or that worked from within PrE, that might be a good option.
Also, as Steve says, playing a DVD on a good, up-rezzing BD player, will improve it, and by an astounding amount, in my estimation. The up-rezzing players have specialized chips for the up-rezzing process, and they can work very well.
Good luck,
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