@IanB
You're right that in the case of Bob (or anything that works on only one field at a time), input chroma could be preserved by changing the resampling positions for the chroma (but I'm not sure if this would be theoretically 'correct'). For deinterlacers that combine the two fields, I think it would be wrong. Consider the effect on a stationary scene.
@vcmohan.
See
here for all the gory details.
I'm not sure it makes sense to do rotation on interlaced video.
Or do you plan to deinterlace, rotate and re-interlace?
Even then I don't think it could work right.