1080P does not give you extra lines of resolution. Much like a 480P dvd player over a 480i signal. the scan lines are the difference. 1080P is more of a marketing thing than really beneficial to most consumers. Unfortunately, many consumers are easy to deceive and don't understand the difference between interlaced and progressively scanned images. The fact is few HDTV's fully can resolve a 1080i signal, and it gets worse with 1080P sets. I would much rather have a set theat resolves all 1080 lines of resolution than a 1080P set that doesn't
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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1080P does not give you extra lines of resolution. Much like a 480P dvd player over a 480i signal. the scan lines are the difference. 1080P is more of a marketing thing than really beneficial to most consumers. Unfortunately, many consumers are easy to deceive and don't understand the difference between interlaced and progressively scanned images. The fact is few HDTV's fully can resolve a 1080i signal, and it gets worse with 1080P sets. I would much rather have a set theat resolves all 1080 lines of resolution than a 1080P set that doesn't