The number of televisions estimated that sit unused in closets.
The EPA estimates that nearly 100 million unused televisions are currently taking up precious, beautiful space. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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While I agree that it's a far cry short of a true 1080p display, 1080/24p input/processing does offer a couple of major benefits on ANY HD display:
1. No de-interlacing required. Therefore no chance of inferior bob de-interlacing or incorrect weaving (causing loss of resolution, combing or interpolation artefacts). You simply get a neat progressive down-scale from 1080p to 768p.
2. No 3:2 judder! This is a huge benefit allowing faithful 3:3 pull-down for HD 1080p material resulting in clean judder free movement at 72hz.
3. The lack of any intensive processing/de-interlacing should theoretically result in a sharper cleaner picture.
Sure its doesn’t compare to a true 1080p display, but 1080p input is still a very worthwhile addition to any quality 720p/768p HD display.