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Offline macdaddy

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Re: TSKB: Is 1080p really worth it?
« Reply #15 on: September 19, 2007, 09:08:58 PM »
No HD is broadcast in 1080p, and wont be for a NUMBER of years due to bandwidth issues. 

Only go 1080p if you're going to go HD DVD/Blu-Ray or are a gamer.  Other than that it's not worth the premium right now IMO.

john - i tend to agree with you. for me, it is about getting the source material without any intermediate monkeying around (upconversion, pulldown, etc. - all of which degrade image quality). this is true for gaming and movie viewing. broadcast will come, but it will be a while. your statement "Only go 1080p if you're going to go HD DVD/Blu-Ray or are a gamer" is funny only inasmuchas it covers virtually everybody - who doesnt want to watch movies, esp. given the fabulous upscaling these players offer, extending the life of your existing dvd collection..?

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Re: TSKB: Is 1080p really worth it?
« Reply #16 on: September 19, 2007, 09:36:04 PM »
I asked this same question back in April to a bunch of tech-wonks on a different forum and the general consensus then was go 1080p.  In part because 1080p can quite happily display any and every HD signal with ease -- whereas 1080i and 720p have problems trying to display the other format.  Also, and I'm still not quite sure how this all works, but a lot of shows are actually filmed at 1080p and then broadcast at 1080i.  So it's possible -- though apparently there are very few sets with a video processor that can pull this trick off -- for your 1080p set to deinterlace the signal and boom, 1080p.  Or something, I read it on the internet after all.

On a 1080p set *everything* you see will be shown at 1080p due to the video processing that happens before you see the picture.  But watching a 1080i show on a 1080p set will not look any better than on a 1080i set (all things being equal). 

And 1080i and 720p sets have no problems displaying other formats - only very early 1080i only sets had a problem with 720p content.  But all the sets now convert to their own resolution (they have to), just like the 1080p set does.
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