Unless your display doesn't do 720p natively. Ideally, you want to your video to be deinterlaced and scaled only one time each. If your native display is not 720p, it would be best to have a processor scale it from 480i or 480p to the native display rate. Going to 720p and then to the native rate of your display may or may not be an improvement over running 480i/p into your display depending on how the quality of the display's scaler is.
