All points made here are true. The fact is that the 1080i signal is merely a transport mode, making it imperative that the display systems properly handle the image processing in firmware. This should be inherent in LCD displays, and unfortunately for the consumer, knowlege of the firmware image processing is really required when selecting a display. Personally i favor the Faroudja-based DCDi treatments, since it is born from film conversion experts that sought after the most film-like feel of an image, nicely de-interlaced and temporal accurate for all pulldowns.
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 DCDi® HD Video Scaler chip but most people do not realize that in this technology there is more than just scaling.
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All points made here are true. The fact is that the 1080i signal is merely a transport mode, making it imperative that the display systems properly handle the image processing in firmware. This should be inherent in LCD displays, and unfortunately for the consumer, knowlege of the firmware image processing is really required when selecting a display. Personally i favor the Faroudja-based DCDi treatments, since it is born from film conversion experts that sought after the most film-like feel of an image, nicely de-interlaced and temporal accurate for all pulldowns.
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 DCDi® HD Video Scaler chip but most people do not realize that in this technology there is more than just scaling.