When delivering for professional DVDs, should files always be progressive?

Is it understood that every Quicktime file that you deliver to a professional DVD authoring house should be progressive? Or do I need to ask? Or do some DVD authoring houses make DVDs from interlaced files.
A house I delivered to didn´t bother to tell me that they waned progressive files, because they thought it was so obvious that everybody used progressive.
The program I delivered was 100 per cent made from dv footage, so therefore I would have to deinterlace my self. Is the interpolation in the deinterlace filter in FCP any good? could it be compared to the interpolation filter in Photoshop.

"Professional" is meaningless around here. Your duplication house was correct but your client wasn't. You needed to know what the delivery format was BEFORE you started the job. A progressive DVD is usually meant for display on computers only. Anything that is meant to be viewed on a television/video monitor is—usually—output to DVD interlaced, unless, of course, you're going for that film look.
Progressive and interlaced have other uses, too.
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