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1080i is 540 lines interlaced, and LCD TV type stuff does not display interlaced... meaning that an LCD 1080 TV will have to assemble the image from 540 lines even, then odd, 30 times a second, delivering 1080x1920 each time. So the processing has to be nice. When it is DCDi by Faroudja doing that job, you will love it, especially if it is tuned to the latency and refresh of the specific display/montior because it is built in.



Personally i like the new LCD stuff, looks great to me.

for some reason the plasmas just arent as nice in the edges of things to my eye anyhow.



1080p arriving to my screen will be nice also, but i expect that to be from whatever new HD-BD hwatever disc finally comes my way, i do not expect much 1080p from broadcast sources.

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What about the Westinghouse 37inch and 42inch sets and the Sharp Aquos 45 inchers?]]>Dec 24th 2005 11:31PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/24/philips-cops-mad-pleas/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/24/philips-cops-mad-pleas/


however, it cannot accept a 1080p input signal.]]>Dec 25th 2005 1:47AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/24/philips-cops-mad-pleas/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/24/philips-cops-mad-pleas/


I mean, we're talking about something PC monitors have been doing for years. It's in low-cost sets. What is Philips, et al doing?]]>Dec 25th 2005 2:15AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/24/philips-cops-mad-pleas/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/24/philips-cops-mad-pleas/Dec 25th 2005 1:49PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/24/philips-cops-mad-pleas/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/24/philips-cops-mad-pleas/


To be fair, the Westinghouse 37 incher is not regarded as having great processing, which is probably why it is so inexpensive. That is not a such a concern when you are outputting a clean digital 1080p signal from your computer. The Westy 37 basically operates best as purely a monitor. If you give it a good signal it will look great. If you give it a bad signal it will look bad, just like a computer monitor. The thing that many of todays HDTV's have though is a built in processor, which computer monitors don't have, and this processor can take a crappy analog input and upsample it for a 1080p output. The Westy 37 does this but not very well. I think Philips is arguing that it is not worth it to put a great upsampling processor in their TV's, but why they don't let you put in your own 1080p signal is baffling.



By the way Westinghouse has recently partnered with Genesis Microchip and will be putting DCDi Faroudja processors in their 1080p 37 inch and announced 42 inch LCD's. The 42 incher should be out around the first of the year. If it is priced reasonably I think it may be the best value for a 1080p set.]]>Dec 26th 2005 4:25AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/24/philips-cops-mad-pleas/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/24/philips-cops-mad-pleas/Dec 26th 2005 9:59AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/24/philips-cops-mad-pleas/http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/24/philips-cops-mad-pleas/
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