Thanks Richard, good post! I fully agree with you. This article is at least half a year old, though. There were already 10-20 threads about the article on avsforum at that time.
I exchanged some emails with the author of the article some months ago. His real intention was to raise awareness that all the brand new 1080p rear projection flooding the store floors at that time were not the real deal and that people often were better off buying a 720p rear projection TV instead at that time. His article sounds like he would think 1080p was a total waste and that it would never be more than that. But I think that was not really what he meant to say. He should have worded his article better. By just stating that he was talking only about "now" and not about the future, he could have gone a long way to avoid these unnecessary long forum threads which were spreading after the article was released.
@SJ, SD content doesn't necessarily have to look bad on a 720p display. It very much depends on the quality of the video processing. Actually with a very good deinterlacer and scaler SD content can look on par or even slightly better on a 720p display compared to a SD display. Unfortunately almost all built in video processing electronics in current displays is grotty. If you want optimal image quality, you should look into external video processors. Not cheap, though.
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Thanks Richard, good post! I fully agree with you. This article is at least half a year old, though. There were already 10-20 threads about the article on avsforum at that time.
I exchanged some emails with the author of the article some months ago. His real intention was to raise awareness that all the brand new 1080p rear projection flooding the store floors at that time were not the real deal and that people often were better off buying a 720p rear projection TV instead at that time. His article sounds like he would think 1080p was a total waste and that it would never be more than that. But I think that was not really what he meant to say. He should have worded his article better. By just stating that he was talking only about "now" and not about the future, he could have gone a long way to avoid these unnecessary long forum threads which were spreading after the article was released.
@SJ, SD content doesn't necessarily have to look bad on a 720p display. It very much depends on the quality of the video processing. Actually with a very good deinterlacer and scaler SD content can look on par or even slightly better on a 720p display compared to a SD display. Unfortunately almost all built in video processing electronics in current displays is grotty. If you want optimal image quality, you should look into external video processors. Not cheap, though.