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The ruse, however, is by the manufacturers. As was pointed out on this blog, HomeTheater Magazine has found that most 1080p sets from most manufacturers fail to properly deinterlace 1080i material, leaving you with 1920x540p/30 content. Not good. Consumer X spent an extra $1000 on his 1080p television, only to be duped by the very people he bought it from. Without expensive external equipment (ie, a scaler, an HD-DVD player, a BluRay player, a hoss HTPC, etc) he will never actually experience real 1080p goodness.

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I'm glad you posted this, someone out there should warn the world that a 1080 display needs proper firmware to do this stuff and produce the intended display, and that 1080i is not a problem. In Fact the problems are not in interlacing but in horrible lossy compression found in mpeg2 transport that happen in rapid scene movement and scene cut recovery.

Wally is correct also in that a 1080p and and 1080i source is not distinguishable to the consumer when the display processing is done as it should be. You can buy an excellent 1080p display from bestbuy, Westy 37" 1080p's are 1400 bucks and Use DCDi and its next-gen variants to produce a perfect image & make a superior PC display for editing and show of video and photo at 1920 x 1080, so huge bucks are not required to ge in on it.

The Pioneer elite uses A Faroudja DCDiŽ HD Video Scaler chip but most people do not realize that in this technology there is more than just scaling.
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Yes, but we're not discussing MORE pixels...we're discussing how they're displayed for the most part. The simple fact is that Mossberg is telling like it is: most consumers won't notice any appreciable difference from a native 1080i signal and a 1080i source that is properly de-interlaced and anti-aliased in 1080p.

Further, the number of 1080p sources of content available are virtually nil on the handful of sets that actually CAN display it. Most HDTV content is 720p or 1080i, and that isn't likely to change that quickly, when most of the current HTDV owners can't support above that. The paltry amount of releases on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray certainly aren't going to push the boundaries, any more than SA-CD and DVD-A did for audio recordings.

Mossberg can way oversimplify matters (or just get them plain wrong, IMHO)...but on this point, I'm in full agreement. Most people don't care.]]>Nov 14th 2006 8:21AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/11/13/mossberg-rules-out-1080p-as-an-important-factor-in-hdtv-buying/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/11/13/mossberg-rules-out-1080p-as-an-important-factor-in-hdtv-buying/Nov 14th 2006 1:01PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/11/13/mossberg-rules-out-1080p-as-an-important-factor-in-hdtv-buying/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/11/13/mossberg-rules-out-1080p-as-an-important-factor-in-hdtv-buying/Nov 15th 2006 12:15PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/11/13/mossberg-rules-out-1080p-as-an-important-factor-in-hdtv-buying/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/11/13/mossberg-rules-out-1080p-as-an-important-factor-in-hdtv-buying/Jan 2nd 2007 1:14PM